Cologne 23-Oct-2003
Kenneth Johnson schrieb Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:36:51 -0700:
> Michael E. schreib:
>
> >This incoherent Heidegger-Juenger-Nietzsche mix as global explanation is
> >easy and
> >all-encompassing and apocalyptic and therefore perhaps very
> >(self-)satisfying, but it depends
> >on translating some shaky metaphysics into the ontic realm of worldview.
> >
> >Woe to those who misrecognize the essence of capitalism.
> >But who would risk asking this question again as a genuinely philosophical
> >question?
> >
> >Michael
>
> Hi Michael well having no capital of note to lose i'll risk asking,
> hopefully philosophically. it seems, here at the surface, that money,
> whether in the form of greenbacks or conch shells, is simply an evolving
> medium of attaining a desire by a desiring machine, a machine formed such
> that all this partakes only of a degree-measuring thing - the machinic
> reactive degrees of "desire, possibility and opportunity" - and there
> remains over from this as consideration only those mediums in which the
> gathering nexus of these three things impel toward manufacture of the
> various petrie dishs needed for their personal nurture and growth as
> artificial life forms, as all life is artificial, something conjured by and
> from the analogic behavior of the atom and its levels of organ.ization - -
>
> or i guess i mean, capital seems more to do with bio.logical,
> psyche.o.logical, or socio.logical science than with philosophic yearning,
> nes pas?
If you mean that we're all capitalists, then yes. It's the desire to have more,
anchored in the human soul, that is, in the human openness to being. Plato
called it _pleonexia_.
Gruss
Michael
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> ps i also feel your sense of the apocalyptic straining in the taut strings
> of the interchanges here, i suppose it's the outcome of a worry that the
> weight of the world is always underweighed by the unconscious or
> subconscious body that constantly demands extraordinary control over those
> forces that threaten its ongoingness - - most prominently exhibited in the
> psyches of those who worry that the force they "are" is inadequate to the
> appearances surrounding them and are forced strategically to continually
> invent supporting fictions - -
>
> or maybe not
> Kenneth
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