Force, or logos, or matrix or aesthetic, clues pointing to reality.
The overman surpasses man as he is by entering into the relatedness to Being— Being which, as the will of the eternal recurrence of the same, eternally wills itself and nothing else. The overman goes toward the eternal recurrence of the same, because that is where his essential nature is rooted. Nietzsche cast the…
Revenge, for Nietzsche,is the will’s revulsion against time.This now means: revengeis the will’s revulsion against the passing awayand what has passed away,against time and its “It was.”The revulsion turnsnot against the mere passing,but against that passing away which allowswhat has passed to be only in the past,which lets it freeze in the finality of…
I am reading What Is Called Thinking by Martin Heidegger. I have finished nine of the lectures which he delivered in 1951 and 52. One more and I will have finished the tenth one, and the reading though difficult has been satisfying. Anyone who believes that Martin Heidegger is not inordinately difficult to understand…
Over the past few days I have discussed with two good friends Nietzsche’s notion of the Superman. Both friends, who are extraordinarily well informed, were of the opinion that the hypothetical, infamous individual proposed by the German philosopher was an ego-driven, imperious, and intoxicated with will-to-power. I disagreed with their opinion though such a…
Friday was the anniversary of the collapse of the World Trade Center, – twin office towers in Manhattan, struck by two hijacked commercial airliners. The event occurred twenty five years ago. We ought to cease lying to ourselves about the overarching context of the attack. What other than a response to America’s empire, could…
Today is September 11. Every form of media makes reference to the event in Manhattan occurring 25 years ago. It’s unremarkable that memories of the destruction of the World Trade Center reveal many meanings. There is no univocal, “correct” meaning. Many people died on that day, and the carnage was not limited to a…
Lives unfold, shake out, become a revelation, or become a cul de sac in the course of time. What is time? I have read various theories of time. Our dilemma, we find ourselves inside of time, caught in times’ flow, we have no vantage point outside of entanglement in the flow of things. Theories…
It is Labor Day Monday. I spent Saturday at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove Wisconsin. Two lanes of asphalt, stretch for a half mile that allows two race cars maximum acceleration for a quarter mile, then another 1,320 feet of room to slow the vehicles. That’s drag racing, a type of competition originating…
Saturday was spent at Cordova Dragway. I wonder that the race track may be more widely known than the tiny village of some 600 residents. On the other hand Cordova in Rock Island County is home to three nuclear power generating stations. The drag strip is twin lanes of asphalt 1,320 feet in length,…
We often watch the late night news on channel 7, ABC television. This is our ritual, – the final shared experience of the evening before turning in. The broadcast meteorologist took note of the cloud cover that momentarily obscured last night’s eclipse from view. The eclipse of the moon is not something that happens…
