Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:19:05 +0100
From: Rene de Bakker <rene.de.bakker-AT-uba.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: WtP and justice


The old-European Botho Strauss:

"I studied the gradual change of the heated
anti-fascist into their negative taskmaster.
It works, I thought disappointed, it works
perfectly, as could be foreseen, how
boring!"

What about the heated anti-terrorist? 


I cannot check the case of Gulf-vets
and whether the first (sic) Gulf war did 
have the unacceptable result of 10.000
US deads or not.
I know that France and other European countries
have paid for the medical treatment of their
soldiers, who became ill.
Like I said, I cannot check, but if there is some
truth in this, then the US can be accused of
biological warfare against its own soldiers, not?

I also cannot check the Enron affair or Mr. Cheney's
oil profits, but I can see them lying, don't you?
As I said of the Germans, that they were so stupid
to fight and die in Russia for Hitler, are you really
so stupid to do the same abroad for these crooks? 

-+-

That France and Germany, tight together now,
are ready to accept big political and economical losses,
on account of their 'betrayal', is in my view a positive signal.
Except for some leaders, now everybody here is 
fed up with this non-extant, but all-pervading 'possible war'.
It's time for another 'command'. WtP has nothing to do
with the present will to war or with aSSociations, but with
the ability of a type of man to place oneself under a command,
that surpasses specific interests. Nietzsche's 'justice' is involved.

"Immense self-reflection: awakening to oneself not as
individual, but as humanity."    (WtP, no. 585, quoted by
Heidegger in: Die Frage nach dem Ding, p. 32)

We -our type- are not ready for that.

Strauss mentions a possible project, as he found it in the
magazin "Scheidewege". It would take 300 million years.
It consists in splitting and carrying off layers of the sun by
means of magnetohydrodynamic mega machines.
They store the helium and transport it somewhere else.
Innumerable earth surfaces could be created.
The project could be started in about 150 years.

rene




























-----------------------------------
drs. Rene de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
tel. 020-5252368              


     --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---