From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:45:49 EDT
Subject: Re: The Idea of Peak Oil


 
In a message dated 06/06/2004 16:56:40 GMT Standard Time,  
m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au writes:


On Thursday, May  20, 2004, at 03:31  PM, I wrote:
 
Jud:
Surely Malcolm this old played-out  'will to will'  wheeze is  just another 
name for the fixed and persistent intent or purpose part  of old mother  'human 
nature' — the way that human beings have been since  the year dot one? Is not 
Heidegger and the knuckle-trailing arboreal troop that  swing behind him 
deliberately and continually  complicating simple  concepts by dressing them up as 
something different and more complicated, which  is a feature of all 
disciplines who wish to impart seriousness to their  pseudoscientific investigations? 
It always makes me smile when Heidegger puffed  up with vanity writes 
portentously of his 'philosophical investigations'  and the 'problem of Being' as if 
by repeatedly enunciating such remarks he will  be able to magically breathe 
some life into them, and make them credible as  actual areas of  adult concern.
 
Animals have their beastly nature and we have our beastly version? The  
Doctor Mengele of Philosophy and the mad Nietzsche before him have played their  
own parts in the reinforcement and buttressing of this will to power  and 'will 
to will' business and given this claptrap a certain  academic imprimatur — so 
you could argue that they are as much responsible for  the way the nutters in 
the Shitehouse are acting as anybody else.
 
How would you respond if the craven creature [who walks with his arms like  a 
gibbon — have you noticed?] that is Bush suddenly surprised you and  turning 
around after spitting his baccy chaw-juice on the floor and  responded:
 
"Eyerack? Eyerack? Eyerack?  What's so different with  Eyerack?  It's a 
question of the strong and the weak that counts old  boy.  Haven't you read your 
Nietzsche? Never heard of Heidegger?  Listen Mister Chips Rafferty, might is 
right and do you  kangaroo rustlers HONESTLY think the game has altered just 
because we've  got heat-seeking missiles instead of battle-axes or boomerangs?"
 
If Nietzsche and Heidegger were right, we should agree  wholeheartedly with 
Goebbels when he said:  'Nun, Volk steh auf, und Sturm  brich los!' 
(Nation, Rise Up, and Let the Storm Break Loose,' and be  grateful to the 
percipient 'will to power-rangers' — the valiant Neocons  [Gawd Bless em] for 
taking note of what  Der alte syphilitische  Sünder Herr bloody  Nietszche said, 
and acting upon it accordingly on  our behalf and that of our anglo 
democracies? 
Do you think that if the shoe was on the other foot, and we were the weak  
ones with the oil, that the kindly and trustworthy old Arabs would treat us  
differently? Come now — do you think that Arab human nature [will to will/will  
to power] is any different to ours? I Arab real Politik any different to our  
own?
You think so?  OK, show me the examples of humanistic thinking which  has 
originated from the Arab world in the last two thousand years?  Omar  Khayaam?  
No, he was a Persian who spoke and wrote in Farsi.
Kahlil Gibran? No, though he was among the most important Arabic language  
authors of poetry of the early twentieth century. He also went on to become  a 
famous author and artist in his adopted country, the U.S., especially by  
virtue of the phenomenal popularity of his 1923 The Prophet.  The  shekel-fest 
ruined him in the end and he had dollar bills spewing out of his  ass.
 
All this Heideggerian flim-flam about 'historical order of being' and  
'intersubjective' historical order is a load of academic hogwash.  We want  petrol 
for our cars — so we don't have to walk in the rain and we want oil to  drive 
our industries, so we can make things to sell that make life easy for us  and 
make loadsamoney while we do it.
 
I commend your efforts to reconcile Heideggerianism with common-sense,  to 
try to make that old gush germane again - to blow off the cobwebs [even  the 
cobwebs have cobwebs]  and tie it all in with contemporary  happenings, but you 
are wasting your time — it simply can't be done. The  political and economic 
analysis of your piece is truly impressive and is highly  readable — what mars 
it are the parts when you depart from your brilliant  feet-on-the-ground 
politico-economic dissection, and  introduce the  gratuitous  irrelevancies of the 
kooky old fart  Heidegger  and  the Loopy Loner from  Leipzig 
 

Cheers,
 
Jud.
Nullius in Verba

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