Subject: Re: Heidegger and the Hebrew Tradition
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:44:07 -0500






Henry, 

>... the "absolutes" that my work-for-a-living mentors 
>have taught me overthe years-- "things are never what 
>they appear"; "things never work out the way you plan, etc."
>This has as much to do with politics & religion as it does
>fitting a cabinet on a kitchen wall or figuring out wht the damn 
>tractor ain't got spark.

isn't yerz the ironical mood of de-struktion, 
but once "the town lies beaten flat,
those who build again are gay"...no?

>i'm of the impression that marx, maybe mostly inadvertently,
>reminded that part of the job of the clearing is to resist
>theory-- often at the expense of the empowered and to the amusement
>of the pragmatic.  That and a sense of justice give the obvious:
>a realistically level playing field.  Add a dose of "progress"
>and one gets a plan, a theory, an ideology-- (so mostly the 
>working class has had to grade that field level by hand.)

bingo! i think
only, fergit "progress", eh...( hate progress)
but i think that catches it...
and, isn't that "sense of justice" not a nothing?
a myth-construct... oresteia, founded in an
overcoming the chthonic tribal code of vendetta...
enhancing...citifying, dasien? 
..."fair attic shape dost tease us out of thot"

>ah, the tech/nihilism thing, my fav.
>some see that as the main thrust and just around the corner,
>but it is something we go thru and out the other side of all
>together if at different times, just like the death a'gawd:
>some left early, some are now left and don't know it/some do;
>some are still being extradited from jerusalem even as i type.
>and some, maybe me, just see it as the big dream composed of
>all those others. . . somehow. . .

this is a hard doctrine...
any tradesman 'll tell ya he's nothing without his kit.
makers exult in the implements of thier craft.
maybe tech is occlusive only where 
understanding, sensibility, virtue is deficient
...bourgeois false consciousness, lumpen chauvinism, effete anomie...


>...just both, aren't there more?

there's sic et non
...what else?
 

bob






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