 By Jim Selman | Bio
I
was listening to a lecture today on the philosopher Martin Heidegger.
He is pretty difficult to understand at the best of times, even though
I have been a student of his thinking for many years. The lecture today
spoke of the distinction he made between ‘tradition’, which he felt was
a bad thing, and ‘heritage’, which he thought was a good thing. In
fact, he felt heritage was essential to understanding the true nature
of ‘Being’. I won’t pretend to grasp it all fully, but what I did get was that[ Read More]
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
It was said that
the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s last words were “Only God can save
us.” He was, perhaps, one of the deeper thinkers (at least in modern
times) on the question of who we are and what is really going on. As
far as I know, he wasn’t religious. So what he meant by these words, if
indeed he said them, is open to question. My view is that he was
talking about the fact that all human beings live in interpretations of
“reality”—cultural and linguistic inventions—and that humanity is now
‘trapped’ in an interpretation that has no back door. That is, the
‘Cartesian’ worldview that now dominates the globe is so powerful that,
like a black hole,[ Read More]
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By Jim Selman | Bio
Since Alvin Toffler published Future Shock in
the 1970s, futurists have been speculating what will happen in the
coming decades. As with most attempts at long-range predictions, the
proof is in the pudding. Most turn out to be somewhat accurate, along
with lots of unpredictable ‘surprises’. No one, for example,
anticipated the Internet, globalization, Google, global terrorism, cell
phones or the unimaginable cost of energy. The future continues to be a
fickle mistress and pretty much does what she wants to do, regardless
of our prognostications.[ Read More]
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