Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:10:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
From: Henry Sholar <henry-AT-agenceglobal.com>




> From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:03:58 +0000
> To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
> 
> Henry wrote:
> 
>>> I don't dispute that Walmart exhibits some "setting to work," but I think
>>> it
>>> has to be vastly more gigantic than it is today in order to even approach
>>> the kind of control and essence-transformative power that Heidegger
>>> describes. There are at present simply too many variables for any
>>> corporation to have us even remotely "dammed up" and "storied" in the way
>>> that the Rhine is dammed up with no outlet except the one we provide at
>>> the power plant.
>> 
>> We can agree to disagree.  Even though you think that Gestell is not the
>> planetary growing danger that it appears to me, it is good to have you
>> acknowledge
>> that Heidegger says it will be the outcome of western metaphysics.  Let me
>> know when you think that the sway of Gestell over corporate capitalism is
>> getting a bit too gigantic for you too.
> 
> Well I can tell you that I do think the sway of Gestell is getting a bit too
> gigantic for me, but not from corporate capitalism. We are much more "dammed
> up into" funding government programs than by any corporation. And although
> the relationship between government and citizen also exhibits the
> characteristics of a mutual transaction (i.e., we pay taxes and in return
> receive certain services), it is not a free one in the way that Walmart is a
> free one, because the IRS can throw me in jail and sieze my assets for not
> paying my taxes. And although in a democracy there is the possibility of
> replacing one regime with another one if we become dissatisfied,
> nevertheless even this possibility is available once every few years, and is
> effective only with mass support, whereas I can switch from Walmart to
> K-Mart or from Microsoft Windows to an I-Book anytime I wish, with or
> without mass support. So the essential characteristic of being ordered as a
> source of funding on call is much more exhibited by the government.
> 
> Anthony Crifasi

Anthony, you just have to incorporate yourself.
Lots of ways to avoid taxes as Anthony Crifasi, Inc.

Hen



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