Could Rainer walk along these edges, on these cornices? Could he face up to the abyss? There were already too many certainties in him. How could he have told me to stop asking myself about Being? Although later, adept, I would have tried to return from such a loss, even while advising me to avoid falling into inauthenticity "of his forgetting"; the said remained said, fixed. A disciple of the Master never could say what Rainer, from his hatred, from his partisan belligerence, had said. Forgetting the question of being was to forget Heidegger. It was to forget philosophy; to fall into barbarism.[Continued]
I decided not to enter the SA. I decided to return to a deep reading of Being and Time. Shelter myself in the coarse folds, in the complexities of the Master's thinking, far from the immediate, from the anonymous. I decided to remain open to the truth, allow myself to reveal myself, and not submit myself to the militaristic discipline of shock troops.
My decision, when I revealed it to him, infuriated Rainer. Didn't I realize? Germany's destiny was being decided in the streets. What exists in Germany today, he said, is a civil war. And our enemy is clearer, and more decided and furious than ever. It is Bolshevism, Dieter. Do you know what goes on in our fatherland while you hide in the search for being? Democratic powers, Jewish international capitalism plan to hand us over to the Soviet Union. They think: if we give them Germany they'll calm down. They think: that's the lowest cost. If Germany unites with Stalin, the Russian Revolution will remain there for decades or will destroy itself amongst them. Is that what you want? Do you want parliamentary capitalism to hand us over like war booty? This gets decided today in Germany's streets! Have you ever seen the Bolshevik shock troops in action? I can tell you how they fight and murder, those communists. Those that assassinate and torture in this apocalyptic, yet uncontainable country, don't only wear brown shirts, Dieter.
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