Heidegger

On 13 Oct 2006, at 14:23, Anthony Crifasi wrote:

> —– Original Message —– From: “Bookwright”
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>> Anthony’s given up on philosophy and has found employment with
>> the state department planting disinformation. Either that or he
>> has abandoned Heidegger for Leo Strauss. In which case watch out
>> for the lies coming thick and fast.
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>> I thought philosophers in general and Heideggerians in particular
>> had a more nuanced take on technology than to equate the lack of
>> electricity with barbarism.
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> I’ll give you a break and chalk the above philosophically
> simplistic response

How do I react sophisticatedly to a Daily Mail article or a statement
by Rummy? That would be absurd.

> to the fact that you’re a relatively recent addition to this list,
> and therefore missed much of our discussion a few years ago about
> whether the factical domination of technology cannot but manifest
> an ontological sway - i.e., that even though the essence of
> technology is not technological things, a preponderance of the
> latter is nevertheless ontologically significant.
>
> That takes more nuance.

You are blinding with science. But you didn’t respond to the thought.
Does that ontological significance of the preponderance of technology
mean that such a society is better and that those societies without
such a preponderance are inferior? That was the plain equation that
Rummy made, and which you were clearly propounding by your posting it
here. Would you care to declare that there is any meaning whatsoever
in the amount of electric lights that a society have?

>> It is a sorry day for this list when the decisive word belongs to
>> the Daily Mail.
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> or to a satellite image?

I had the good fortune to live in the outer Hebrides for a year whose
inhabitants because of their Christianity shut down the entire island
and all its services for all of Sunday, and who to save money turned
off the street lighting at midnight every day. It is still a very
sweet memory. I lived in Morocco with people who could survive on the
equivalent of 10-20 cents a day, and who were the most civilised
people I have ever met. Cannot say the same for the inhabitants of
the techno-age.

Regards,

Abdassamad

Posted on Friday, October 13th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
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