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World Of Dung considers Lacoue-Labarthe grappling with Heidegger's comparison of industrial agriculture with the death camps.

i'm a little perturbed by this statement...Not because its offensive to me personally, but because it sounds like Mr. Lacoue-labarthe is presumeing this statement of Heidegger's as negative..what perturbes me is that it sounds rather commonsensical and makes complete sense to me. What scares me about it, is that maybe I think i should be offended. When i read this statement i hear Heidegger thinking to himself that technology not only has unsettled humanity its thrown consumption from a paradigm of survivial into a paradigm of hording in a nonsensical John Locke sort of way. That is, argiculture is a self commodifying vehicle to rampant distruction.

I think Heidegger comparison wasn't so much that with technological progess humans have moved from needing food to survive to merely hording food. I recall a Nova program that investigated the engineering firm that got the contract to build the crematoria. In the documents and interviews with the engineers it was apparent that this was just another contract for them. They were concerned with doing a good job, building the right tool for the given requirements, but never concerned with its purpose. I interpret that as Heidegger's point, that technology can be applied blindly, irrespective of the purpose towards which it is used.  ¶ 4:10 PM