Heidegger

In a message dated 30/07/2008 03:21:04 GMT Standard Time,
lake_wylie_sail at yahoo.com writes:

Tudor

Note: Heidegger said: all philosophers = 1 idea. Being.

Jud:
A constantly reoccurring complaint found amongst anti-Heideggerian critics
and commentators concerns the fact that if one disagrees with Heidegger’s
ontological cultist fantasies one is immediately accused of not reading the
*master’s* trailer-park texts with a sufficiently ‘open mind.’

What REALLY upsets non-transcendentalist, non- existentialist,
non-Heideggerian thinkers is when the redneck reificationists say patronising things like:

“The first requirement is to understand what is meant by metaphysical
existence.”

Like the maniacs of all religions, these pathological obsessives just cannot
get it through their heads that it IS POSSIBLE to read right through *Being
and Time* and all the rest of the Heideggerian drivel which they believe
automatically provides the key to an understanding of Heidegger’s mumpsimus of
*Being* - and in TOTALLY UNDERSTANDING IT - TOTALLY REJECT IT.

An understanding and rejection of such ontological juvenilia also includes
a repudiation of the adolescent interpretation of the gerund *existence* (or
*dasein* as the Philosopher of Nazism labelled their murderous
life-experience in the case of his reptillian Nazi *Volk.* His published contempt for
Americans and his public call for the extermination of Jews obviously ruled out
any approval of semites and gays as members of the his grotesque * Goyimic
Daseinim,* for to a Nazi like him such entities are simply not properly human
- never mind being mere untermen. Apart from the Jews all native
non-European “races” e.g. the “negro” and the “gypsy”, were seen as alien “artfremd.”

Like all fanatics they believe that to understand Heidegger presupposes an
acceptance of the metaphysical reification and the Heideggerian baby-language
in which such bottom-feeding pseudo intellectualism is expressed. To reject
such drivel means that a true understanding has not been experienced, or
that the unconvinced reader lacks a magic intellectual ingredient that *sets
aside* the cognoscenti from *the unknowing ones* as members of some Nietzschean
type *herd.*

They find it impossible to comprehend that such weird opinions as theirs are
repellent to those with the capacity for rational thought and that such
fantasy requires *faith* rather than intellectual ability as a route to
acceptance. They completely miss the subtle way in which Heidegger the seminarist,
after being thrown out of his Catholic seminarial brainwashing regime, simply
transposed the Jesuitical approaches of his seminary childhood from theology to
ontology and reconstituted and pantheistically replaced the conceptual
instantiation of *God* as *Being.*

In fact this is dramatically highlighted in one pastes the text of *Being
and Time* into a text editor and instructs the *find and replace* function to
substitute all occurrences of the gerund *Being* with that of *God.* Try it
for yourself.

Like all such cults, no matter how many times one protests that on the
contrary, the texts have been read and re-read closely - even hermeneutically with
the aid of a yod, and that one perfectly understands his theories and
notions but reject them as patently puerile, they still act as if you were the dope
instead of them. We can further add, although it fails to penetrate their
closed mind-set, that we reject as laughable his outrageous and risible
employment of the grammatical gerundial mechanism ‘Dasein’, or do not recognise the
so-called ‘ontological difference’ other than as a BASIC ERROR of thinking in
any thinkers neurological tool-kit.’

We can endlessly repeat that it matters not HOW MANY TIMES one reads the
material, or if one spends HOURS poring over every single word with a
magnifying-glass, one doesn’t come any closer to ACCEPTING the obvious mistakes, but
only come to understand more clearly the clanking mechanisms of this ponderous
peasant’s woodenly-geared cognitive wheels, and how he manipulates and
improvises, extends, explicates and defends his original befuddled Grundbegriffe
der Unsinn as he whizzes round the dual cups of his ontological ‘cup and ball’
chicanery of his Daseinic fairground trickery.

The response, and the method of rebuttal typical of all Heideggerians, and
indeed all cults and cultists, is the same lunatic fringe macumba - the same
monotonous, boring mantra:

(1) ‘You haven’t read enough of his books.’

” But… err… I’ve read them all…”

(2) ‘It’s because you haven’t read ‘XYZ’ - [a particular book of his.]

“If it is in print - and it has his grubby fingerprints on it - then I have
read it…”

(3) ‘It’s because you don’t allow yourself to “get into the mind” of the
thinker of the writings and ‘go along with the thought.’

“I don’t believe that juvenilia about the existence of a *mind* - I’m a
grown-up.”

Heidegger’s Techniques.

I have been studying the language of Heideggerianism for some time [or the
‘Heideggerian Mantra’ as it is sometimes described] which is worryingly similar
to the “voice roll technique” used by Elmer Gantry type preachers, North
Korean ‘re-educators,’ cross-examinating lawyers and hypnotists to achieve
‘predictable agreement results.’ The belief appears to be, that unlike every
other domain of human endeavour (including science) philosophy is magically
huckster-free. Any beginning philosopher can see that like any other
representation of ideas, the area of philosophical concepts is just as much an
agenda-driven domain which attracts liars, manipulators, con-men and politicians as
any other sphere of human activity. Often beneath the ivy-crowned veneer of
philosophical thought lies a politics of power just as red in tooth and claw
in its sympathies and hatreds as any left or right-wing dogmatistism.

The brain-washing or *Les Smith de-cognition process* comes first - the
‘Clear your mind and let me start to fill it again’ method [exemplified in
the Nazi-style address to his students in his ‘Basic Concepts’ or
‘Grundbegriffe’ lecture in which he actually admitted he preferred students with empty or
emptied minds] - is precisely akin to the ‘constant arsenic-drop’ of word
repetition typical of Heidegger and all Nazis, and identified by Klemperer in
his quote:

*Nazism permeated the flesh and blood of the people through single words,
idioms and sentence structures which were imposed upon them in a million
repetitions and taken on board mechanically and unconsciously… Words can be like
tiny doses of arsenic.*

Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist’s Notebook,
trans. Martin Brady, London: Continuum, 2002, pp. 15–16.

Then there is the naive, hyperactive *sell it by worshipful zealotry
technique* of people like Michael Pennamacoor, which one often encounters on the
Internet’s Heidegger discussion forums. Philosophy is often touted as a
discipline which prides itself on questioning all presuppositions, leaving
nothing unexamined. This laudable appoach to learning was blatantly dismissed in
Heidegger’s outrageous ‘ let’s take as a given and move on’ technique as he
UNQUESTIONINGLY approaches and accepts the primitive concept of ‘Being’ in
the introductory chapters of Being and Time. *Being* is simply passed over
as an ontological fait accompli and the gerundial contrivance *Dasein* is
ushered on stage with an unwholesome haste. Soon, by way of unremmitting
repetition, the verbalism is reified, elevated to the dizzy heights nounhood. It
happens so assidiously that the naive reader is completely unaware of the
semantic sleight-of-hand.

Sartre, who I had always thought of as more intelligent than his German
fellow transcendentalist, speaking of ‘property’ and ‘essence’ as if they were an
accepted axiomatic and postulational components in any thinkers tool-kit.

Then we arrive at ‘the end of the world’ and “only hope for the salvation of
humanity” technique, employed by a now departed John-the Baptist look-alike
member of this list. A charming though rather scatty-brained continental
who became increasingly hysterical and evangelistically Heideggerian as more
and more dusky economic migrants poured into his tiny European republic.

The greatest disappointment for me personally, was that when, many years ago
[not knowing much about existentialism at the time] I first came to Sartre,
and later Heidegger. I had erroneously assumed that it was about personal
freedom, independence of thought, creative ideas and lateral thinking.
Instead found that on the contrary it was an adhocracy of fanatics. Another
weird cult of philosophical Hari Krishnas chanting meaningless metaphysical
mantras. For the most part they occupied themselves hermeneutically poring
over the sacred texts with fingerless gloves in an effort to prove to other cult
members that they were wrong in their interpretation of some minor and
fatuously irrelevant aspect of ‘the Great Sage’s’ pronouncements. The bitter use
of ad hominem, some cudgel-like and some rapier-like (often crudely disguised)
left me utterly astounded and convinced me that the only response in such a
scatological skid-row of suppositions was to fight such fiery crudity with
fire.

And so it soon came to me that the most basic of all facts about
brainwashing in the entire history of man, is that no one has ever been brainwashed and
realised, that he HAD been brainwashed.

Out-of-doors or auto-brainwashed Heideggerians who have had their mental gea
ring and balance interfered with in this way will usually passionately defend
their Heideggerian manipulator. They appear to have a sadomasochistic
relationship. It is a fascination with their mental abuser which is redolent of
the relationship between the ex-camp survivor Lucia Atherton and ldorfer, a
former Nazi SS officer. Thirteen years after World War II, the female
concentration camp survivor who has been tormented by Aldorfer finds him manning
the reception desk at her hotel where he is now the night porter.
There, they fall back into their sadomasochistic relationship.

Like Lucia Atherton, whether their claim is that they have simply been
“shown the light” . . . or have been transformed in miraculous ways, it doesn’t
matter what criminal activity the guru Heidegger has been up to or how many
Jews he has designated for extermination - a similar compliancy with
intellectual abuse prevails. Similartly with the ersatz mystics of the west, it
matters not how many Rolls Royce’s the Yogi owns and operates out of the funds
supplied by participants or dupes supporting the particular Yogi Industry, or
how many foul and evil statements the black, red and white beflagged Guru has
made in his private life, and how much of his private obsessions are
introduced into the body of his doctrine. They follow the Master with naive joy
mouthing mantras and quoting his holy nonsenses, for they don’t recognise that
they have been brainwashed and have become transmogrified into irrationalist
automatons whose grey matter and the pathways and areas which process language
have been invaded and become infested with an insidious ontological
ga-ga-speak which renders them incapable of normal communication.

Obeah Figure.

The Heidegger cultists believe that they have arrived at their acceptance by
a process of rational and instictive common sense. They do not realise
they have ’seen the light’ because of the textual nature of their Obeah’s
material with its specialised triggers and ‘loaded anti-intellectualisms’ [known
as ‘Heidegger-speak’ to the long-suffering anti-Heideggerian cognoscenti.]
It is laid out in such a fashion, typical of the American classic: ‘How to
Win Friends and Influence People’ by Dale Carnegie, (essential reading for all
salesmen, in order to brainwash themselves to the value and efficacy of the
product they are asked to foist upon a suspicious public,] and they have in
fact become victims of the most pernicious form of brainwashing ever -
brainwashing by proxy - or brainwashing by academic acolytes and theo-ontological
thurifers paid for out of the public purse, or the alternate Heidegger Industry
mail-order brainwashing, or by the treble whammy combination of the three
methods making it certain that the minds of our youth are well and truly
laundered by this insidious and mentally debilitating ontological dualism.

The Wiffling of the Waffler.

In the puerile language of the cult they believe that they have formed the
forming of their own opinionated opinions [which in a strangely strange way
they have] and have arrived at the arrival of their own conclusions
conclusively and independently of the self of themselves, by first engaging in a wide
reading of other sacred textualising texts, and then coming so prepared in
their preparation and suitably mentally equipped to the inner sanctum in the
cleansing of the clearing - in the lighting of the Lichtung - in the mythical
Wagnerian Wald of their metaphysicalist Master - where hollow-eyed Zarathrustra
forever limps in his limping towards the distant fluttering flitter of the
Hakenkreuz on the Hütte on the hill, and blonde-haired wood-nymphs dwell in
the dwelling [who lay with Hölderlin before he was mad.]

And there of a sudden, there in the thereness of the there, in the Da-ness
of the Da, near the very open ontological orifice of the cavity of the cave of
the Die Nibelungen, in the land of the Daseinic Dämmerung they became
enraptured in rapture, and captured in their capture and bondaged and subverted by
goat-footed Pan and the liquid honeying of the honey of ‘Heidegger-speak,’
and they knelt in their kneeling at the feeling of the footing at the feet of
their Master and the meat of their Vater, and pumped crystal water from his
special spouting spout, and licked his calloused toes with hot darting Daseinic
tonguing tongues, and anointed his sore solipsismic soles with oil of
Lavendel.

And thus they drift apart from the naturalising nature of the natural
speaking of speaking of humankind, and the words spoke for them in their spoking of
speaking, and their jokes jeaked for them in their joking of jeaking, and
their teaks did the tokes in their toking of teaking.

Then, caught in a shaft of light - in that momentary moment - kneeling by
the *Shepherd of ‘Being’s* burning bum-fold - there within the crooked crutch
of his crooked shepherd’s swastika crook - THEY SAW THE LIGHT LIGHTING - and
partook of the wafer of waffle-speak, and their lips became moist with the
metaphysical moisture of moisturing, and their grammar became ridiculous with
the ridiculing of ridicule and the dar dar dar of the dar dar dar and the dar
dar dar dar of the … it’s OK - Relax - I don’t REALLY talk like this - I’m
only taking the meta-semantic Mickey out of the metaphysicalists.

Posted on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 am
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