Subject: RE: FYI NYTimes.com Article: Plaques for Nazi Victims Offer aPersonal  Impact]
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:10:20 +0100
From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl>




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[mailto:owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU]Namens michaelP
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Onderwerp: Re: FYI NYTimes.com Article: Plaques for Nazi Victims Offer
aPersonal Impact]


on 2/12/03 1:03 pm, Bakker, R.B.M. de at R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl wrote:

> 
> 
> "It goes beyond our comprehension to understand the killing
> of six million Jews," Mr. Demnig said. "But if you read the
> name of one person, calculate his age, look at his old home
> and wonder behind which window he used to live, then the
> horror has a face to it."
> 
> 
> 
> Machination/Erlebnis a la Spielberg: make the masses
> accessible to Erlebnis, (give the horror a face: for
> instance Anne Frank's), and use the Erlebnis passion
> for further manipulation, one-track self-excusing
> accusation.
> 
> Also THIS horror has faces to it. Don't let yourself
> be lured into it.


Seems to me that we *must* think and com-pre-hend the savage murder of six
million and not reduce it to sentimental one-at-a-time facings; we must face
right up to six million (and we can, if we swap murders for money units;
that says some thing about us...) and not commit the crime of reduction,
feel/scan out that difference, millions of murdered bodies like the
production of tins of baked beans: gestell. We are the horror, the horrible
if we can not do this.

Appalled every time.

mP (only an other jew)

     Michael,

   It's precisely the (manipulation with the) outrageous character of the
   Endloesung, that hinders to see the working (wirkende Wirklichkeit) of Gestell.
   All evil is considered to be concentrated in disasters like these, so that the
   Gestell, that which  solely is able to equalize bodies and beans, strengthens
   its overall grip more and more unquestioningly. The more so, the more effective
   propaganda will direct all Dasein unhindered towards Erlebnis (like now)
   That is dangerous, because there is no remedy.

   regards
   rene


   


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