Heidegger

A B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building in heavy fog in 1945. An engine made it out the other side of the building and two elevators had their cables cut. The crew and eleven office workers died.

Bernx at aol.com wrote: In a message dated 5/30/2007 11:31:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
Among European philosophers, Heidegger’s contemptuous idiocy would remain unrivaled until Jean Baudrillard’s quip about the World Trade Center’s former workers that “the horror for the 4,000 victims of dying in those towers was inseparable from the horrors of living in them — the horror of living and working in sarcophagi of concrete and steel.” That, Jud, expresses much of the sentiment of the new “Democratic” left in the USA, now opting to reinstate a vast Federal bureacracy in the coming Presidential elections (Nov. 2008). But this would merely be a case of overcompensated doubt insofar as the twin towers were citadels of international bureacratic totalism: private, corporate and governmental. Back in 1970 I lived a few blocks north of the WTC building site and down in the SoHo (South of Houston Street). I watched it go up andI was astounded, day by day, as I realized it was not being built with heavy steel
i-beam girders but lightweight steel trusses. “The wind is going to blow it down” I said to my young Harvard (Ratclif) lady companion who, as a country girl suffered from both acrophobia and agoraphobia working in the Big Apple and lving with me, a native New Yorker. My remark terrified her and so it was decided that we get the hell out of NYC and move upstate to the Catskills. What I didn’t fathom at the time was that the towers were designed qua planed obsolesence and when the time came would neatly collapse like an accordine with very little mess, expense and labor. Engineer Bin Ladin figured this out and saw an opportunity to do in the real Muslim enemy, the bureacratic super-structure of Western Society and the USSR. The idea was to re-establish the historical Muslim tradition of internecine tribal warfare in the true jihadist sectarian sense for claim to the proper expression of Allah. That way of life was being encroached upon by Western bureacratism, both
corporate and govedrnmental since the Ottoman Empire came to an end after the first World War when fossil fuel oil became premium. In any case the twin towers had to come down either by Muslim intervention or as the wish fullfillment of Baudrillard insorfar is it was retained as the global symbol of the spreading disease of the growing self autonomy of bureacratic totalism and its control of the tecnological means to a final end. This was also the rule of the University systems of “higher” learning. What is also significant is that if those suicide planes had hit the Empire State building of the Chrysler Building they would have been severely damaged but not fall down because built of heavy i-beam girders arranged in box-like grids. The Empire State building was not overcome by King Kong the cinema symbol of the time of a recapitulated priaptic archaism, the gigantic prehistoric ape, Darwinian forebear to petite humans. Komg was simply too big for congress with his human
lady love and the phallic empire state was too big for him. Quite the opposite wa true forty years later with the maternal twin sisters of the WTC so that Bin Ladin was in fact the revenge of Kong and which is irreversible with all the heroics of G.W.Bush and all the King’s men.In any case, I believe Baudrillard suffers as the man in the iron mask and like yourself, in the hell of failing bureacratism.
Sincerely;
Bernard .

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Posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 1:30 am
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