These ponderings attempt to let themselves be appropriated by the event. (Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Martin Heidegger, 1936–38/1989)
Monday, August 26, 2019
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8/26 7:03 AM, sunny, duty, they are going to Osaka this afternoon, for four days; meantime, reading Donald Wright (2004), on and off; men have enjoyed mass killings, of kinds of species, including himself, from old stone age on; they seem to be incapable of learning how to let nature be; now, Otto Rank emphasized the will, might it be that the will was the origin of this bloody curse? though Rank was saying something about creativity, which has no reason to enjoy genocides, i mean, creativity is not meant for aggression and destruction per se, it is meant for creation, for reparation, also (you see, here Klein becomes relevant); a la Heidegger, gelassenheit means let it be, so the noblest will is "will not to will" or "will no will", so that the will is back to nature itself, finally; in other words, man tells himself, i would like to live among all the living creatures, just like them, be them, no more, no less;