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[mailto:owner-heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens James
Garrabrant
Verzonden: maandag 18 oktober 2004 10:19
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Onderwerp: Re: derrida
Rene enscribed:
> Yesterday i met an old man, who had peculiar blue eyes. It was the blue
of
> people who live a life long near the sea. Sometimes one meets an old
farmer,
> who has sthing similar. They, so to say, carry their surrounding,
nature,
> with them. Their eyes and their words - that which is called the senses
> and speech, are still nature. Not, like in all 'free individuals', the
> registrating denaturalizers of nature. A certain sharpness can be
detected
> on the faces, sthing impersonal, 'evil', but not because THEY would be
evil.
> Mostly they're conforming and easy. Conforming to ANY policy....
Are you familiar with Oswald Spengler's book "Decline of the West"? What
I've found to be a more valuable
section in the book was where he discussed the difference between
city/countryside: "The peasant is eternal man, independent of all Cultures."
The inheritance of the city-man is death and decay, but even the man of the
country, when an intellectual, must cast his eye to the city in the time of
Culture.
One global nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and decadence for
all.
James
The Western variant of Gestell. Now that is admitted that democracy is not
leading to peace but to war, and now that all intellectuals have changed the
leg they're standing on - it really is the same leg, but don't tell - ,
it looks like we're in the midst of a little revaluation of the highest values.
The ruling system of values is now best held together if the word 'peace' is
replaced by war. 'Democracy' and 'freedom' are holy, so is Christendom, so
let's drop 'peace'. Reality, meanwhile, remains the same.
A certain annoyance is spreading at the sight of the old criticizers - the
Asian Spengler was one example. Through all the lie words and actions, is
felt that passive nihilism is worse than active: better be the hammer than
the nail, and (for lower classes) better the nail than the wood.
Lately i thought that the neocons might prefer Kerry to be voted, for cleaning
up the mess, but now that's not even necessary: next year another war.
As the French say (and practised in the Revolution): while eating, one gets
hungry.
The question is: how long will this euphoria last? Can it really rival the Arab
readiness for action? If yes, and in the long run, the Chinese too? However that,
provisionally the only way to safeguard the nation and its economy, is: war.
If this Nietzschean analysis is not totally wrong, then nihilism will become an
always increasing danger (and violence more necessary). I think, that if one has
doubts with the 'reality' of words like Being, one should consider the reality
of the most paralyzing thought: that of eternal return as the maximum variant
of meaninglessness. One will see - hopefully with TWO eyes - that this threat
will spread always more - that it cannot not increase. This invisibly legitimates
war, torture and all that is still waiting.
regards
rene
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