In-der-Blog-sein

Culture_Raven in a review of Buruma and Margolit's Occidentalism has this non sequitur:

Academics should begin by considering the Occidentalist ideas that have been handed down to them, in gnomically convoluted prose, by the biggest philosopher of the 20th century: Martin Heidegger. Philosophers, literary critics, and the ecologically minded have all cited Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology." I wonder if intellectuals would be so eager to cite Heidegger once they realized that here, as in so many other of his allegedly profound and insightful essays, he is merely recycling hackneyed intellectual commonplaces shared by other members of the German intellectual mandarinate.

Baffled that the biggest philosopher merely recycled commonplaces? What were the less bigger philosophers doing in the 20th century? Were all the German mandarins also reinterpreting Aristotle? Note the Borges quote at the top of the page. It's not reasonable, merely satirical.  ¶ 1:59 PM