terror and error
June 3rd, 2006, search relatedRelated posts :: terror and error :: terror and error :: terror and error :: terror and error
Tags: strife
— michaelP wrote:
> Yes, but I should like to suggest that terror is other than the inane
> production of the idiot box and the newspapers, etc; if noise (media, common
> understandings, sabre rattlings of politicos, etc) be noise(y) then it is
> not terror as such unless noise itself is terror too… I want to think
> terror filtered out from the noisy background as some kind of signal, sign,
> something significant in its standing out precisely from the noisy nonsense
> of the noisome machinations of the media et al. As much as asking for the
> essence of terror I ask for the terrorising of essence…
Heidegger appears to feel that terror is something that must be dealt
with; i.e. avoiding it would be inauthentic.
“So the man that truly knows is not the one who blindly runs
after a truth but only the one who constantly knows all three
way, that of Being, that on non-Being, and that of seeming.
Superior knowing–and all knowing is superiority–is granted
only to one who has experienced the sweeping storm on the way
of Being, to whom the terror of the second way to the abyss
of Nothing has not remained foreign, and who has still taken
over the third, the way of seeming, as a constant urgency.”
IM, 120
So to summarize, don’t seek shelter from the storm. Get wet.
If you won’t risk getting hit by lightning, you ain’t goin’
nowhere.
