From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl>
Subject: RE: Virilio - Widerwille
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:32:03 +0100


> Well, rene, I think the doubling of "will" is because somewhere (not sure
> where, but I shall discover...) Heidegger reading Nietzsche says that
> "will"
> and "power" in "will-to-power" are the 'same'; thus might say "will-to-
> will"
> or "power-to-(em)power". So both terms mean will-to-power (whatever that
> might mean :-)).

What he underlines, is the will void of purpose, of substantiality. Image a
child which sees the laptops for sale at a computer shop and would very much
want them. His will is then activated on this purpose, which is to get the
laptops as fast as he can. If he decides to steal them, or he waits to get a
job later, this is immaterial for the system of willing to will. What
matters therein is that somebody drives the ship with the madmen, somebody
whose thoughts are inasmuch contagious that the power of his (insane) vision
possesses all the other madmen, which follow him in a mad race to nowhere
and nothing. What religions say against such a stance is that God has indeed
a purpose, a purpose which is not communicable, a purpose which enables and
makes worthy. A priori it is knowable, yet here and now it is secret, as in
a computer network with different access rights. And, the mightiness of Lord
is that He allows for no cracking of these rights, but only for revelation,
which is commonly translated as the Apocalypse.

Gigantomachia peri tes ousias!
 
Tudor Georgescu
 
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