File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0311, message 450


From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:14:24 +0000


michaelP wrote:

> > Again, nature has been far more inficient with its stocks than 
>capitalism,
> > since 99.99999 percent of all natural species have been naturally 
>depleted
> > to extinction.
>
>Anthony, to speak of "nature" as dealing with its "stocks" is a near 
>perfect
>example of gestell-speak; speaking thusly in the grip of gestell about
>gestell is exactly what hides the essential nature of gestell itself;
>misquoting Heraclitus: gestell likes to hide.

I should have put "stocks" in quotes, or leave out the reference to "stocks" 
altogether and speak simply in terms of the disappearance of species, and I 
think the point would still leap out, because John's criticism of capitalism 
in that part of his post was specifically in terms of its tendency to let a 
species die off instead of saving it. I argued that in nature there has been 
the same pattern, but even more extreme, so capitalism is a better 
alternative than nature herself when it comes to saving species from 
extinction.

Anthony Crifasi

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