Heidegger

In a message dated 26/06/2006 11:21:13 GMT Standard Time,
R.B.M.deBakker at uva.nl writes:

Jud:
In all this time I have been reading your fascinating messages here on this
list Rene - which I very much enjoy - I have never been able to discern
EXACTLY what your political or social programme is? I continue to visualise you
as a Zaratrustra-type prophet with long white locks flowing in the wind, as
you cycle along the canal paths across your flat lowland landscape with a bunch
of tulips sticking out of your back pocket. A not unflattering picture BTW.

Do you hold out any hope for Europe at all? What first, important step do
you see, that, if being made, would set the scene for the beginnings of a
revival of the west or do you see the cogs of determinism grinding relentlessly on
eventually reducing the west to silent smoking piles of ground-zero-dust?

Do you think that America is a *lost cause* politically, socially and
culturally? Too far gone - riddled and raddled with right-wing religion - and
impossible now to save? Do you think that globalised Europe could extricate or
untangle itself from the economic and cultural ties with the even more
globalised USA - or has the relationship gone too far - the economic trammels too
intricate and difficult to unpick, and a self-ensnared Europe will be dragged
down towerblock-wise with her?

Do you detect any signs within Europe of a realisation that we have *backed
the wrong mule or elephant, * and sold our birthright for a mess of
McDonald’s pottage served in polystyrene cups?

Although we British are Europeans here on our island, filtered as it is
through an agenda-driven media we seldom hear the definitive European view.
Because we speak the same language as the Americans and have much more, I think,
in common with them than other continental countries, we tend to be exposed
to a more US-orientated media coverage. Personally I like Americans a lot,
and still feel a genuine feeling of gratefulness for the way they saved my
country from the evil excrescence of Nazism sacrificing many of their own
precious lives in the process.

I doubt if little Britain could have withstood the might of Germany in the
long term had Hitler not turned east and the Americans had not come to our
aid. Now personally I do not give a damn whether they came to our aid for their
own reasons in the hope of access to post-war markets, or even if the
mechanisms that bore fruit in the USA declaring war upon Germany were inspired by
Jewish lobbies in the Whitehouse - the bald fact is that they DID come to our
aid when we needed them most, and if they had not done so we would have been
under the heel of a metaphysical megalomaniac and the megalomaniacal
philosophy of the Hitler-toadying Nazi Heidegger would now be dominating British
higher education and the Heideggerian Zombification our universities would still
be polluting the minds of our youngsters instead of being what it has
recently become - a laughingstock and the butt of jokes in the corridors of shame.

Well, you know well enough how I feel about Nazism and the philosopher of
Nazism - but putting unpleasant smells like Hitler and Heidegger on one side
for a moment, I am really interested in reading a simplified version [free of
Heidy-speak if possible] of what your advice would be to European leaders if
you were allowed to mount the podium in Brussels and address the delegates
from the European states there assembled?

Could you kindly set out in very simple terms your recommendations or
political policies that might go some way to reverse or change, or at least
ameliorate the dreadful conditions and policies with which our lick-arse European
governments have associated us with - conditions and policies which you
identify - conditions which you predict will get much worse?

In the words of Lenin - *What is to be Done?*

regards,

Jud.

Posted on Monday, June 26th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
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