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Heidegger Critique: What is it?
(Thanx to Rachel Wilsey who thanked Tom Bevan for this information)
This is the story of Heidegger, and the technological mindset. the link story is that when we function under the assumption that we can solve the ecological porblem, we subscribe to some flawerd notion of the essence of technology. OUr concept of nature, and how to deal with it, is rooted in a technological way of dealing with the world. we assume certian things about other beings; namely that they are foe our consumption. we view things as raw materials, asking how they apply to us. The argument is that that this is the wrong view of the world because it eclipses being (which is the nature of things). The question shouldn't be how can we advance ourselves over other beings, but to ask what relation we have to them. we should live in nature, not assume nature lives for us. we chain ourselves to a singular view of the world, seeing it as a machine or a picture with exact calculations. we try to defeat or overcome nature, when this is merely an illusion. This mindset leads us to fight for domination over nature. Which, is the root cause of the ecological harms. this has two implications:
1. it indicts their plan and evidence saying it's logic is skewed by acting under the flawed technological paradigm.
2. it dispotes solvency - the authors of plan assume nature is something which we control, rather than nature controlling us. all solutions are merely illusions that futher the eclipsing of being, and ecological destruction.
The next level of impacts stem of fthe harmfulness of the framework they act through. that endorsement or preception to this mindset has impacts top the real world, and by voting negative you take a stance against our flawed concept of the world, and take a step foeward to reveal the truth.
NOW AN OUTLINE
A Technological approaches to the environment chain it to singularity.
B Environment harms solvability claims are rooted in a technological
paradigm of control, obscuring our understanding of being.
C Eclipse of being is worse than neuclear war, or annihilation of humanity.
Rachel Wilsey
Bear Creek High School, Colorado