From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:19:07 EDT
Subject: The Temporality of Fear


In a message dated 09/06/2004 15:10:44 GMT Standard Time, 
_R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl_ (mailto:R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl)  writes: Jud,
 
How, in your vision, does Heidegger's ontological and temporal distinction  
of Angst and fear relate to Freud's unease (uncannyness) of modern man in  
civilisation? 
rene
 
Hi Rene!
 
Freud was an Austrian - does that explain it? ;-)
 
"Angst" signifies a feeling of insecurity, anxiety, or apprehension. The  
master race and their Teutonic blut brothers across the border worry about their  
national identity and their image abroad. They worry that all the poolside  
loungers will be taken over by the dull Dutch and the lazy layabed  English at 
their Spanish hotels, and they are down at the pool at the crack  of dawn 
laying their towels on the seats to reserve them. They worry if  they have a spot 
on their ass. They worry about the economy. They worry about  worrying. So it 
is only appropriate that the word comes to us from German, a  language spoken 
by people who are constantly wracked by angst, and who almost  seem to enjoy 
it. Germans celebrate worrying — write innumerable books about  worrying.
There is 'Sorge und Tod,'  'Tod und Sorge,'   'Sorge  und Zeit,'  'Zeit und 
Sorge,'  Sein und Sorg, ' Sein und Zeit,'   and of course Heidegger's classic  
all-time best-seller : 'Das Sorgen  um Werdend in Bett mit einer Jungen Frau 
Gefangen.'
 
They worship worrying and delight in worrying. 
They worry about politics. They worry about riding bicycles on the  pavement. 
They worry about chewing gum on the bedpost, They worry about the  
environment — they worry about the Turkish gastarbeiter.
 
 It's not that Germans don't like to have a good time - one has only  to 
witness the high cultural event of mass drunkeness at their ubiquitous Beer  
Festivals.  It's just that they seem to be able to have a good time  worrying. They 
enjoy discussing their worries. This Germanic trait is also  carried on, to a 
lesser degree, by the Austrians and the German-speaking Swiss  and to a 
lesser extent in the Netherlands.
 
They erect maypoles in all the clearings in their suffocatingly smelly pine  
forests and dance around them in the age-old symbolic: ' Sorge-Tanz  von den 
Rittern der Abenddämmerung.' (The 'Worry Dance of the Knights of the  
Gloaming.')
Large amounts of shredded cabbage fermented in brine are consumed at these  
nocturnal gatherings, and after the dancing, competitions are arranged where  
contestants contend to consume as much sauerkraut as they can in the  shortest 
period.  This naturally generates the production of large  quantities of 
internal methane gas, and the night skies are  illuminated when the young men, 
acting as human flame-throwers, drop their  lederhosen and ignite the gas with 
flaming rolled-up copies of the  Versailles Treaty [specially reprinted for the 
purpose].
 
It is thought that Hitler got the idea for his Flammpanzer through his  
attendance at these traditional frolics through watching Martin  Heidegger's 
prodigious performance as a human flame-thrower, the occasion  being the celebration 
the Philosopher of Nazism's promotion to the  rectorship of Freiburg 
University.
Heidegger claimed that he perfected his rectal weapon-system in  the 
dormitories of the Jesuit Seminary from which he was excluded for setting  fire to the 
curtains.
 
People like Freud and Heidegger worry that we in the more carefree  countries 
with large Celtic ethnicities do not worry enough — so they write  
interminably long boring books about it, which attempt to convince  everybody else that 
they should worry too, and that furthermore a state of  'angst' is a part of 
the universal human condition, where plainly IT IS  NOT. Germans apparently 
worry if they are ever happy and they are most at home  in an angst-riven state. 
Those in the more enlightened and  civilised countries who worry, worry about 
things, are normal  worriers worrying about whether they have enough money to 
pay the gas bill and  buy petrol for the car. That is not to say that we in 
the more enlightened  countries of the west don't have some 'German-type 
worriers' amongst us, there  are the large amount of refugees of german extraction 
who fled to britain prior  to the war, and the German WW2 prisoners of war who 
married British women  and made their home here,  and there is a minority  of 
our  population who have more deeply rooted personality problems due to 
introversion,  the effects of morbid forms of transcendentalism perhaps flowing from  
awkwardness in social situations, with the concomitant loneliness that it  
engenders.
 
The way to avoid angst is to avoid the company  of Germans or  reading any 
books written by Germans  with mild forms of Asberger's  syndrome, and potty 
Austrians who use angst as a ploy to relieve certain more  inadequate members of 
the population [usually middle-class females] of  large amounts of money.
 
Suicide Rates (per 100,000), by country, year, and gender. 
 
Belgium 29.4 (sociologists explain this as being due to the large amounts  of 
beer which is drunk, and the large amounts of tulips they consume as part of  
their diet].
 
Germany 20.2 
USA       17.6  [Large Germanic  element  — based upon sales of Frankfurter 
Sausages]
UK          11.8  [Carefree Celts - quick to anger but quick to forgive.]
 
Since the fall of communism and the opening of trade with the former Soviet  
Union,  the Russian male suicide rate has shot up to 71.6. This is  identified 
as coinciding directly with the recent importation and sales of cheap  
Russian translations of Being and Time, with the Russian Federation's  government 
under the leadership of the diminutive Vladimir Putin.  President  importing 
these 'angst promoters' [as the Russian Psychiatric  Council call them] by the 
tens of thousands in order to control a rapidly  increasing population by the 
encouragement of felo-de-se..
 
Demands from the public to remove these books and ban the import of further  
copies are met with government silence.
 
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(http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm)   JUD EVANS - XVANS 
XPERIENTIALISM
 
 
 
Nullius in Verba

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