Heidegger

>From Ant recently:

> Not many news reports have picked up on this aspect of the story out of
Finland:
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/finn…
/2007/11/08/11943294103
> 37.html
>
337.html>
>
> an accidental connection? How soon we forget:
>
> http://an-archos.com/pipermail/heidegger…
uploads/mirrordir/Sturmgeist89.htm>

Ant, in that clip you wrote:

> One of the students came to the attention of the authorities almost
> immediately after the shootings. Sledge said Woodham, upon arriving at the
> school last Wednesday, gave him notebooks of writings that seemed to include
> an explanation for the killings. Sledge provided copies of one page from the
> notebooks to several reporters.
>
> “I am not insane,” the page reads. “I am angry. I am not spoiled or lazy,
> for murder is not weak and slow-witted. Murder is gutsy and daring. I killed
> because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society,
> ‘Push us and we will push back.’ “
>
> The page ended with a passage from Nietzsche that asked, “How shall we
> comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”
> =============
>
> Anthony Crifasi

But this notion of revenge from resentiment and simple frustrated anger is
exactly what Nietzsche would never have sanctioned; also, the “murdering” in
the (mis)quoted {I mean, misunderstood to the point of insane reversal}
surely refers to the metaphysical killing of the Platonic idea (as be-ing),
the upside-down turning of Platonic metaphysics (as poetically rendered by
Nietzsche in his ‘death of god’), and certainly not imbecilic murderous
rampages (laughably ‘justified’ by misread, misunderstood, quotes
from/references to poor Nietzsche) of the kind reported. My feeling is that
Nietzsche wouldn’t have wiped his arse with such reports…

A serious reading of Zarathustra, yet again, seems appropos?

regards

michaelP

Posted on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at 6:05 am
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