Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:45:48 -0700 (PDT) From: That Pete <that_pete-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: H in the media >From Bangkok's The Nation: ... And finally there’s Heidegger, another loopy oddball. They say he was so inept with tools that had he been assigned to build crosses in Jerusalem, Jesus would have died of old age. But he was the greatest of them all in the thinking department. He was the Mercedes of philosophers, even though he had a weird light around him. But there was just one tiny design fault. You see, old Heidegger was a Nazi, not just a sympathiser but a rabid, Nazi Gold Card-carrying, snitch-on-your-mates Nazi and went on being a Nazi even after Hitler had given it up as a bad gig. Have you noticed there are no women philosophers to speak of? Like hobbies, philosophy is a sad, smelly, lonely, anorak, male thing. Smart women are just too smart to be philosophers. When you think about it, it’s extraordinary how little effect philosophy has had on sentient life. Let’s face it, from Plato to Russell, you’d barely have noticed they ever existed except for the fact that most of them were two coupons short of a special offer. In the last 100 years, Gandhi, Freud and Bob Dylan have been more influential on the way we actually think and live than Sartre, Heidegger and Nietzsche and his rabbit. After all, a Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. If you never read their books, here’s the T-shirt version: Nietzsche killed God because he wanted to be God; Sartre killed God so he wouldn’t feel guilty sticking his hand up Juliette Greco’s skirt; and Heidegger killed God because he thought Hitler could do a better job. ... http://www.nationmultimedia.com/page.news.php3?clid=12&theme=A&usrsess=1&id=100394 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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