“Right-wing ideas aren’t just a bit of flag-waving and baiting a few Muslims. Right-wing ideas are spiritually about inequality. The left loves equality. It believes we’re all the same; that we must be treated the same. And they believe that as a morality. As a moral good which will be *imposed*.”
— Jonathan Bowden - “Credo”
One’s life is a bullet that goes through screens. You hit your final screen, and you’re dead. What happens after, none of us know.
Commemorating Jonathan Bowden, who passed away on this day 29th of March, 2012.
“The word πόλεμος, with which (Heraclitus) fragment (53) begins, does not mean “war,” but what is meant by the word ἔρις, which Heraclitus uses in the same sense. But that means “strife” - strife, however, understood not as dispute and squabbling and mere disagreement, and certainly not as use of force and beating down the opponent - but as confrontation that sets those who confront one another apart, so that in such setting-apart the essential being of those who thus confront one another exposes itself, one to the other, and thus shows itself and comes to appearance […] battle is reciprocal recognition that exposes itself to what is essential […] (This setting-apart) lets the ones show themselves as gods”
— Martin Heidegger, The Self-Assertion of the German University: Address, Delivered on the Solemn Assumption of the Rectorate of the University Freiburg.
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