In-der-Blog-sein

WhooshUp, on Punxsutawney Phil, the Heideggerian angle.

Heidegger says that death is unique for each person, only the same sharable experience for each other. Death, the end of the life cycle, repeats for each mortal being. It cannot come twice to a single (multiple death is a sign of a god, as Phil learns), so it can only categorize us en masse, and from second hand. Our culture helps us keep going by substituting fear of categorical death for our eerie yearning for that singular closing newness to be had in a life that descends ever so slowly, as we age, into endless repetition. I wake up. I go to work. I feed my face. I lay down.

By the way, whoosh-up is what things did in first beginning; when they had the ontological style of physis, and all that pre-Socratic goodness.

Be sure to check out this blog's excellent list of resources in its right column.  ¶ 4:19 PM