Dichten

A blog of Poetry: to say, to speak, the verb for to make poetry, dichten. Poetry is the condition for the possibility of philosophy, the condition that fulfills its own condition, a sort of causa sui that doesn't leap but grounds in its disdain for the question of ground. This blog hates itself in its metaphysics, but achieves the height of nothing...

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"In addition to the choice of words, positioning of words, and the sequencing of words, it is above all the entire overall resonance of the poetic telling that "expresses" the so-called meaning. Yet this overall resonance of the telling is not simply the result of the positioning of words and arranging of lines, but rather the reverse: the overall resonance of the telling is the initial, creative resonance that first intimates the language; it is the origin not only for the arranging and positioning of the words, but also for the choice of words, an origin that in its resonance constantly anticipates the use of words. This overall resonance of the telling, however, is from the outset determined by the fundamental attunement of the poetry, which takes form within the inner outline of the whole. The fundamental attunement for its part grows out of the particular metaphysical locale of the poetry in question." Martin Heidegger, Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine", translated by William McNeill, not yet published.

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Civilization

Muthos, mama,
from her womb
so many so far
born, bore
civilization,
the last,
the bastard
son that fucks
the anus of
humanity,
to get his
rocks off:
exploitation
knows no love,
only
improve itself
at all costs,
and to it man
sacrifices
happiness, his
improvement,
his freedom:
but reassured
that it will
live on, in it
he lives on;
a purpose...

all for a purpose: the continuation of the collective ideal. And in order man strives, thinking he does so for himself, his survival, for the improvement of civilization, which is against humanity and thinks not for its wishes, exploits humanity with its consumerism; civilization is the virus that makes all that it infects work for it against themselves, making humanity weaker as it grows stronger, as it makes everything easier for us to do. And people do not see that civilization is whats wrong, what wants to spread and domesticate the globe to do its chores, while it grows, wiping out the past, history, culture (its arch rival) and all who stand in its path of world domination. As the individual declines, civilization relishes in decadence. But it doesn't ruin us for no reason: it says that we, as a part of it, shall live on, as it lives on, and hence the more we contribute to it the more we live on. But it moves on leaving us in the dust, failing to recognize our efforts, our contributions, as we are all such small parts of its giant being that we matter not. Words of wisdom: Just please yourself.

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