Subject: RE: Heidegger's Animism
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:00:44 +0200


Jud,

You seem to get all the key notes of Heidegger's thinking, but instead
using them for your own profit, you try to block other's way to such
treasures.

For the vision of the primeval man, uncorrupted by the forces of evil,
err, derivative knowledge, this vision was a source of continuous joy.
It is the modern man who is a poor and naked clown which overindulges in
egolatry. His vision is barren and full of sufferance.

What is at first appalling, and then becomes simply ridiculous, is the
zeal of this sufferer, the modern man, in finding apprentices in his
twisted ways.

For that end, he employs sophistry, but never thinking. For thinking
would expose his nakedness, as in the story of the naked king. He is
particularly sensitive to ridicule, and that's why he does his best in
trying to suffocate any element of originality and authenticity.

Somebody wrote a whole book on mechanistic thinking; it is full of
common places for he forgot that he is the first who has to quit what he
hates in others. The whole cohort of evils he sees in others, he sees in
fact in himself, for he is just projecting.

For a kid, the world can be only wonderful, even if it contains pain and
anger. I know what unnerves you most: seeing others becoming sons of the
principle of existence, while ahead you there's no redemption. Just
pain, shame and oblivion.

I'm too a modern man, but I, I chose the return to what is most ancient
in the ancient. And, wonder! It is just ahead of me. It is my future. It
means happiness to the same extent it means sufferance, it is victory
inasmuch it is defeat. But, drawing the line, my life becomes once again
interesting and worth living, it recovers the sublime which only the
primitives knew while facing the overwhelming. According to Heidegger,
this overwhelming is called the to be.

I wish you that it happens to you, too.

Become what you are!
(cf. Martin Heidegger's _Being and Time_, § 31, and Friedrich
Nietzsche's subtitle to _Ecce Homo_)
 
Tudor Georgescu (no, not "become *me*", silly! :-) )

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