In-der-Blog-sein

The Pinocchio Theory blogs about Whitehead and Heidegger, and has comments on a core issue:

[Heidegger] picks up on the worst part of Nietzsche, the heavy-handed, pompous, self-obsessed, doom-laden, apocalyptic, romantic rhetoric -- so stereotypically "Germanic" -- of Zarathustra, but completely misses Nietzsche's gaiety, sarcasm, "French" scepticism, and general sense of dancing over the abyss.

That's the problem right there: Martin can't dance; and the muses Thalia and Erato appear to have passed him by; and he schtupped his grad students; and he was a Nazi.

REG:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  ¶ 4:30 PM