Profound Boredom, Drifting Here And There In

Thus "phenomenology" Means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- To Let That Which Shows Itself Be Seen From Itself In The Very Way In Which It Shows Itself From Itself.

Why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing? That Is The Question. Presumably It Is Not Arbitrary Question, "why Are There Beings At All Instead Of Nothing"- This Is Obviously The First Of All Questions. Of Course It Is Not The First Question In The Chronological Sense [...] And Yet, We Are Each Touched Once, Maybe Even Every Now And Then, By The Concealed Power Of This Question, Without Properly Grasping What Is Happening To Us. In Great Despair, For Example, When All Weight Tends To Dwindle Away From Things And The Sense Of Things Grows Dark, The Question Looms.

Agriculture Is Now A Motorized Food Industry, The Same Thing In Its Essence As The Production Of Corpses In The Gas Chambers And The Extermination Camps, The Same Thing As Blockades And The Reduction Of Countries To Famine, The Same Thing As The Manufacture Of Hydrogen Bombs.

The Critique Of The Highest Values Hitherto Does Not Simply Refute Them Or Declare Them Invalid. It Is Rather A Matter Of Displaying Their Origins As Impositions Which Must Affirm Precisely What Ought To Be Negated By The Values Established.

From Our Human Experience And History, At Least As Far As I Am Informed, I Know That Everything Essential And Great Has Only Emerged When Human Beings Had A Home And Were Rooted In A Tradition. Today's Literature Is, For Instance, Largely Destructive.