Censoring the memesphere - Heidegger and Nazism

The idea that we should or could purge the collective network-of-ideas by suppressing the ideas of some individuals is not only ill-conceived, but disastrous. It arises from one of the dominant metaphors we understand the mind and thinking in terms of, and bears on our wrong-ideas on the boundedness of the individual.

A response to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBpCUq91dZw

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Memesphere
• collective
• thinking
• conceptual
• metaphor
• mind
• Heidegger
• nazism
• Oedipus
• Sophocles

[Poemsapennyeach]

It's all yuk to me...! Woman just get on with life...sorry....but sometimes I do feel that...

[soulfetcher]

Not just women - I sometimes feel like that too :)

But then the crap still happens - to survive our species has to learn better ways fast.

[fruitsofnews]

hmm... could you disambiguate more contrastfully please ;-). Stying open to this degree of tolerance certainly is unsettling.

[soulfetcher]

I don't know how to 'disambiguate more contrastfully' 'cos i don't know what it means ;)

I agree - it is unsettling to refrain from rash ill-considered conclusions - but the alternative is untenable.

[fruitsofnews]

Hmmm... caught! I made that word up @ "contrastfully"... :-). Disambiguate more... more "authoritatively" I guess... more "definitely" more "markedly", "decisevely".... perhaps more "dualistically"... more "antithetically"... something along those lines :-). "but the alternative is untenable." But then my dear , you're saying this whole human world so full of singularisms is untenable aren't you?

[soulfetcher]

I hope not ... not the whole human world...

... just "rash ill-considered conclusions" we are tempted into.

[2bsirius]

I agree that we can't extract Heidegger's thinking from the [often named ironically] Western Canon...BUT I think we need to keep in mind how his thinking was translated into the blood and soil movement in Germany..AND it's also good to acknowledge how radical Islam has used Heidegger's thinking for its own ends. So agreed we can't extract him, but we need to include the WHOLE of the implications of his philosophy...To do less is to air brush out the venomous implications of his thought.

[Professoranton]

This is beautiful. Well said and thoughtful, engaging and inspiring.

[danielacheson]

Great stuff. I already enjoy ideas similar to this but different perspectives are always useful...so thanks for the angles. It seems like the sad old game of dealing with fear and discomfort - censoring, ignoring, and assigning negative values to the source of that fear/unease is only going to exacerbate the problem....or something like that. Anyway - well articulated! It'd be good to hear some other thoughts on this from other people....anyone with opposing/differing views, please comment!