Heidegger

> That may have been true in the past but not in the new totalistic
> global hegemony of bureacratic infrastructure. An equilibrium is no
> longer possible except as global auto-liquidation using WMD,

That’s too much doom thinking, even for me, who I am a “professional” doom
prophet. Both Heidegger and Jung saw the modern world with mixed emotions:
much good stuff passes away forever, but there is also some promise. Inside
the hordes of last men, there were will always be some philosophers
pondering fundamental problems, at a time when everyone else works/amuses
himself to death.

> The Hippie generation was essentially suicidal, wanting too much and in
> the moment. That is what Timothy Leery and LSD was all about: the quest
> for nirvana qua oblivion and a perfect example of todestrieb, i.e., u-
> topos and nihilo now and not tommorrow. Didn’t you ever listen to the
> “Greatful Dead?”

I guess I did not listen to it. But I listened a few hard metal so that I am
getting irritated only by these mere words (hard metal). Imagine, there’s
Christian hard metal, too.

> And so this mood has evolved to global proportion where doomsday is the
> only option.

What is left of the hippies is only their hedonism: the “chips generation”
seeks to have as much fun as possible with minimal effort, without having
neither the idealism, nor the vain desires of the hippies, nor hippies’
lofty reasons for making love instead of war. The coming generation is a
generation reluctant to ideologies, mainly because thinking in even such
simplistic terms incurs too much effort for a hedonist. They are like
animals working for having enough food, under the control of global
bureaucracy, and if bureaucracy did not already exist, it should be invented
for taking care of such generation. They deserve each other. One can then
only shake his own head, full of resignation.

> Cold war stasis is now impossible and where technologismo
> has reached critical mass in the common availability of WMD.

Now, leaders might be stupid, but they are not that stupid. Even if they
would aim at destructing the world, their bureaucratic apparatus loves their
own children too much too allow that the world perish in an atomic
catastrophe. So, they will remove/sabotage their own leader when he would
get much too nasty.

E.g. one can imagine Eichmann making the final solution work on schedule,
but even he would have rebelled when asked to destroy the whole world. The
many assassination attempts against Hitler prove that even his own folks got
disgusted by this Caligula.

Greetings,

Tudor

Posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 11:00 pm
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