/lit/ - Literature

>>12661927
tbqh it's my own sense too. it's there, but we have gotten a world in which if people are Morally Clean we cannot talk about them at all. the Black Notebooks have their share of antiquarian ideas MH's reluctance to walk back anything he has said about the gas chambers is unbecoming. but it's not Heidegger's own reluctance to Explain Himself that is the issue for me, it's the curiously frenzied demand that is entirely our own to put history on trial and hand out judgments on it,. you know who had a good take on this? Baudrillard:

>It is not nostalgia for fascism which is dangerous. What is dangerous and lamentable is this pathological revival of the past, in which everyone — both those who deny and those who assert the reality of the gas chambers, both Heidegger's critics and his supporters - is currently participating (indeed virtually conniving), this collective hallucination which transfers the power of imagination that is lacking from our own period , and all the burden of violence and reality which has today become merely illusory, back to that earlier period in a sort of compulsion to relive its history, a compulsion accompanied by a profound sense of guilt at not having been there. All this is a desperate emotional response to the realization that the events in question are currently eluding us at the level of reality. The Heidegger affair, the Barbie trial etc. are the pathetic little convulsions produced by the loss of reality that afflicts us today, and Faurisson's proposition s are simply the cynical transposition of that loss of reality into the past. Faurisson's 'none of this ever existed' quite simply means that we do no t even exist enough today to sustain a memory , and that all that remains to give us a sense of being alive are the techniques of hallucination.

read the rest here:
https://monoskop.org/images/a/af/Baudrillard_Jean_Screened_Out_2002.pdf

Heidegger did not like the Jews, Descartes believed animals had no souls, Plato did not really notice the slaves, and Schopenhauer probably pushed an old lady down a flight of stairs. fuck, even Girard would probably have had to have said that he would have been against gay marriage in the end. but these are the kinds of things that strike me as being ammunition for people who just really hate philosophy, who simply will not be satisfied by anything short of Mao Zedong. and some form of Mao Zedong is what they are going to get. the French Revolution produced Robespierre, WW1 produced Hitler, the Bolsheviks produced Stalin, the MSM produced Trump. history works like this, nemesis is for realsies.

so pic rel, basically, for a lot of this. we need a course-correction, and badly.