My supposition --
I believe it is true in my case -- is that many people, in different ways and degrees, have taken the challenge, if I can call it that, to confront and to expose themselves to that entirely personal issue of
Being: that I exist, that things exist, that I am here in this, among all this, and sharing this existence with
yous.
I will assume that many people -- most people -- plunged into this question without necessarily understanding why and what brought them to it. What I mean is *a whole generation*. Certain people who have confronted Heidegger or any other philosopher, will inevitably present *what was meant* in ways that their hearers listen to, hear, and act on.
It should be obvious, though perhaps it is not to many who write here, that the confrontation with the question of
Being (taken as I understand Heidegger to have meant) is much more than merely an intellectual exercise. I also assume, but even this is not certain, that most do recognize that the confrontation with one's self, and with Being, cannot be reduced to anything such as *an intellectual awakening* or something like an accumulation of new facts.
I do not think, for this reason, that one's confrontation with Being, or my confrontation with Being, is experience amenable to chitter-chatter on a forum like this. Though I do think that
allusions (to what is realized) are possible. I also wonder at times if, here among supposed philosophers, that anything at all of this nature had actually ever taken place! And could be taken seriously. By seriously I might mean *authentically*. So, with that said, it is quite possible that many here (?) have never really confronted themselves through a headlong clash with that non-rationalizable issue of
Being. In my own case I do not think that
Being can be presented as a forum-topic.
The issue that
I am examining, that is being examined in this thread, will not suffer from being more precisely and more clearly defined. Is Heiddeger
in a specific sense so very much related to it? Will something Heidegger did or said illuminate any part of what we are dealing with here? I do not think so.
It is possible however to make some cultural and social references to the *problems* of Nietzsche and Heidegger especially among those who shit bricks these days that there is a movement that is gaining adherents and influence who are (like myself) moving toward an *anti-liberal* posture and who articulate their ideas in clear and coherent terms.
So, and for example, we have
right in front of us a fine example: the manipulation of our children by state entities where what is loosely referred to as *wokensess* but which is actually a derivative from and an activist's branch of Marxian activism, has gained an extraordinary ground within pedagogy. When one reads and understands what is going on there, and when it is laid out in clear terms, it is highly alarming. Except that people (I will use Kropotkin as an example) cannot clearly see the *problem*.
The radicals that operate in our present, and who have significantly fucked things up,
must be stopped. But we live in a liberal society! I have to tolerate people who, in my view and one I can rationally defend, are destroying the very foundations on which it is built. What do we do *in a liberal political system* when things come to this pass? Is this an issue to be decided *by democracy*?
Can Heidegger help here? Can Nietzsche? Or is there any Postmodernist that can bring light to this problem?
