Heidegger

In a message dated 6/26/2007 4:29:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tgeorgescu at home.nl writes:

could not understand reading it if Orwell was pro or against
totalitarianism, for I saw in his book reasons to support both the thesis
and the anti-thesis. He is anti-totalitarian in the literal meaning of
what’s written there and in the sketch of the plot, but in the subtext he
cultivates a deep understanding for the motivations of the totalitarian
politicians.

Try reading his *Homage to Catalonia* for the ground to his view. Also, be it
noted that Totalitarian regimes begin with direct democracy and end without
it. Direct democacy stands in contrast to mediated democacy and which is not
democracy at all if only a minor in part, e.g., the republic, e.g., The USA with
its balance of powers:
The Executive, The Court, The Congress, the democratic vote. The Greeks early
on realized that pure or direct democracy leads to the tyrant voted in by the
rabble at the agora. In the modern case a pure democacy would give totalistic
rule to large urban centers with dense population. The resutl would be the
enslavement of the rural areas to the effect that the nation would starve to
death. Greece and then Rome understood this early on. The great example of such
catastrophe were the Europepan Middle Ages or Dark ages where faminine and
great epidemics were the rule until dasein gave rise to the Renovatio.
Bernard

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Posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
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