Heidegger

>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.

Tympan: Yes and one way of doing this is by keeping your comments on
Heidegger sheltered in a blog where you don’t have to deal with any serious
criticism or the necessity of changing your mind under persuasion which mean
that what you previously thought is turned into nothing not to mention that
your mind becomes more humble. This benefit is what talking to intelligent
people offers.

Being-in-the-world is just what holds us out into the nothing which is a
cause of anxiety and so not something anyone wants to keep doing. But one
hardly comes to sense this if one doesn’t unplug oneself from the media that
just keep our minds going with noise. Just this active curiosity with what
is happening somewhere where you are not prevents one from exploring the
practice whereby one is held out into the nothing. It’s they-talk curiosity
that gets in the way of any real discussion of terror as an experience
rather than something that is controlled by understanding it as a thing that
has qualities.

So to summarize don’t avoid getting burnt by the list. Unplug from the media
and discuss being-in-the-world and don’t worry about fucking up and looking
like an idiot because idiots are number one around here.

Posted on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 at 5:00 pm
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