“𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕)

My birth year

I dunno but my wit seems acclimatized to this Collapse. I reckon I trained for it, more or less. I was almost convinced Gulf War 1 would result in the Middle East burning like a Roman Candle. Almost. The idea turned on a few questions about ability to, or desire to, get out of dodge. And second if he had the balls to do it. A great movie scene could be his Mossad secretary handing her boss the phone and Saddam asking if Saudi is burning.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 “𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕). 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞”

𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐒𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

“In the present age, due to the haste and ordinariness of everyday speech and writing, another relation to language dominates ever more decisively. That is to say, we take language, like everything we deal with daily, as an instrument, namely, instrument for communication and information. This notion of language is so familiar to us, that we hardly notice its uncanny power. The notion of language as an instrument of information is today driven to the extreme. The relation of man to language is undergoing a transformation the consequences of which have not yet been grasped. The course of this information can’t be stopped by direct intervention. Moreover, it goes on in the most profound silence. Certainly we must admit that language appears in daily life as a means of communication, and as such a means, is used in the ordinary relations of life. But there are still other relations than the ordinary ones. Goethe calls these other relations the deeper ones, and says of language: “In normal life we make do with impoverished language because we only signify superficial relations. As soon as the talk is of a deeper relations, there immediately enters another kind of language: for example, the poetic.”

What is then that we, especially we of today, have to appreciate as worthy of urgent questioning? What is worthy of questioning is that which has meanwhile intensified into something immeasurable and impenetrable, and is sweeping away our age to we know not where.

What is worthy of question is that for which we today don’t yet even know the right name: that the technologically dominable nature of science and the natural nature of the familiar and likewise historically determined dwelling of man are set against one another as two alien domains, and with a constant acceleration, are racing further and further apart.

What is worthy of question is that the controllable nature, as the supposedly true world, seizes upon all reflection and aspiration of man, changing and hardening man’s imagination into merely a kind of calculative thinking.

What is worthy of question is that the natural nature is degraded into the nullity of a mere creation of our fancy, and no longer even addresses the poets.

What is worthy of question is that poetry itself no longer is able to be a decisive form of truth.”

"Nad Babim Yarom pamyatnikov nyet" ("There are no monuments over Babi Yar").

https://remember.org/witness/babiyar

Ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity