Heidegger: being and publicity
Heidegger’s entire magnum opus with the corrections is an infatuation with human presence. Though he alleged misconceptions in the original, his later works on mysticism and technology further cement his crucial point. Being is temporal and caught in a machine with no privacy. The mystic deserts to the forest to escape the industrialised cog. He meditates to affirm his presence even as he loathes temporality. The poetic mysticism only furthers the faltering descent of being to communal oblivion.
Being and time narrates the fundamental question of being. He never fully answers his inquiry but solidifies his prowess with the temporal work. Being-to-death highlights a central axis of existence. It is in this position that life is self fulfilling. It is with the redemption from overachieving denial that death will come one day. Being is a profound characterisation that is depleted from its essence. The focus of the collective riddled being’s magnification. With so much metaphysical lore it was close to impossible to articulately define the subject. Being as first philosophy remains voided of concern. Heidegger attempted to tackle that issue. Solve Aristotle’s query in Germanic fashion.
His turn to technology and mysticism was a poetic prose to his initial style. This anti-globalist rhetoric sought tradition and the days of old before modernity swept everything up. The emotion flourishing in the pages draws from the soul of desperate pursuit. Modernity was a revolution, gradually eclipsing identity. It was a bulldozer marching forward picking up all the old dirt with it to shove aside for a new foundation. Changes were occurring ever so frequently all the while doing away with bygone customs. Avenues charred with car prints ossified into cracked defeated roads. The special was an old charm with no present relevance. A past time not worth reliving.
Returning to being was a long shot attempt to revitalise all that was progressively erasing. The individual was losing his touch. He was marred from his potentiality. He was a cog in the machine. The collectivist model in the industrialisation mode was a worker’s nightmare. The individual was more and more replaced by technological insight. After WWI and the scientific fiasco, the individual was suffering. Alone in the universe, with bygone nationalism. The nationalistic compulsion slowly faded into the darkness. Being was the necessary adversary to nationalistic collectivism. Industrialisation in a way capitalised on the autonomic pursuit yet the nationalistic pride maintained a machinery process. Being is lost in the perpetuated materialistic exhaustion.
Existentialism sought to candidly manifest individuality. To deal with the new world. A world no longer bound by traditional metrics. An ecstatic new future of solo venturing. Existentialism was a comfort to the lonely lost adventurer. Figuring things out as he goes along. Phenomenology was the second degree of existential thought. Turning from the objective metric to subjectivity. The personal conscious view delves into a private layer of the individual’s identity. Being is a self-reflective measure to counteract the external fear of tomorrow. The lonely journeyman has a moment of introspection to recall his mighty self in the face of defiled descent. Being and time reassures the self promise of affirmed beauty.
Aristotle’ being as first philosophy was metaphysics and theology. For Aristotle, divinity preceded human affairs. Heidegger flipped the switch to place man’s self as the first piece. Heidegger’s motion transitioned from the dead divinity to man’s superhuman capability. The need to accommodate the new age was profoundly executed by Heidegger. God’s place at the top of the corporate ladder overwhelmed human necessity. Now it was man’s turn to take a look at himself in its totality. Focusing on his own strengths and weaknesses. There was a void after the religious desertion and that void was filled by human introspection. Looking deeper internally to the wonders of the human mind and its finitude. Man is a social being but also a meaning seeking creature. This primary insourcing gathers the self in a time of dire abandonment.
Mystics have always had a thing for the theatrical. The mystical pull forges a connection with life itself. The mystic sees beneath the materialistic hard drive to supply and grow. It is routine that he deserts to the forest. To be alone with the universe. To focus his energy towards a larger cause. Whether that be a deity or a unified reality. The mystical front is the individualised reminder in the external collective world. Spiritual pursuits highlight the need for a break from the heavy burden of life. It is a reminder of self empowerment. Yet some mystics ran away to leave this wretched life. It was a cleaving to enter the bliss of infinity. The mystical addiction began as an antidote to the worrisome daily actions but morphed into a drug. Mystics sought salvation away from societal coercion. Hellbent on surviving the chaotic nemesis breathing down their throats.
The mystical right is not necessarily isolating in the woods. Such hermit behaviour is a temporary escape but not a permanent dwelling. There is a need to venture away but that is not the ideal. Stoic philosophy and eastern mottos encouraged meditation. Sitting quietly relaxing and taking a breath to focus on one’s breathing. Aligning the chakras and stabilising the self. Duty bound to maintain a clear conscious devoid of external invasion. Internal harmony is the mystic’s purpose. An unassuming salvation at the end of the road. Searching the self for a revitalising experience. Encountering the universe, standing beyond the self feeling lifted up beyond the sacrilege materialistic bind. An emboldening temporary trance to daily overjoy.
Affirming the self in the world of overwhelming technology. Technology that takes the role of the human conception. Nationalist paradigms re-emerged in the globalist prowess. Technology linked the world in a collectivist world for connection. Technology overhauled the self reflective genius. A industrial boom back into routine work. More time to focus on television series. A materialist ploy to engage the masses. No more alone time. Taking answers from others and needing attention from an audience. Being is professed to the whims of global illusion. Mysticism turns inward from the external exploitation to focus on the self. Yet the technological conformity derails any individualistic affirmation against the interconnected web of anonymity.
Technological thinking becomes a formation creationist problem. It is a concentration on change, seeing things for how they are useful to us. While this stretches to inanimate objects, it also reoccurs in relationships. Attaching oneself to another for personal benefit or the inverse. Technological thinking is a selfish pursuit for grandiose achievement. It sees everything as an object to bend to one’s will. Profiting from exceptional innovation at the behest of others’ enslavement. While technology in of itself is not an evil, its use beyond weaponry can be exploitive. Materialistically seeking produces a gainsay into the human psyche even if disastrous to the self in the long run. Working for profit with tech booms at the expense of permanent damage. Shooting for monetary surplus in the technological tranquility comfort.
Focusing on technological advancement in all its positivity lurks a never ending continuation. The need to persist to grow and build bigger and better. Time is rarely allocated to self improvement and reflection. External appropriation and indulging is required. Working no stop with no selfhood left to properly assess. Introspection is a last second resort at dire exhaustion. Near evening after a long day at work, the reflective idea pops into the brain. Yet it quickly gets tossed aside for more immediate concerns. Ensuring business is up to par and excellence is advancing. There is a routine that congests any opening for a breather. A moment of individualised focus and introspective agency.
A globalised world of persistent labouring to achieve heights of fame and fortune. To acquire the necessary goods to showcase exclusivity. A model of status and hibernated insecurity. Requiring others perception to feel accepted and worth it. Technology presumes a social standing to connect to others in the greater wide world. A mystical persona relives the selfhood. The soul to be reproduced from its drenched near drowning in torturous anguish. A social climbing aspiration while neglecting one’s own sanity and purpose. Being is not something to brush off but to assimilate and stoically profess in a world of rampant collectivist conformity.
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