SPIEGEL: So what now takes the place of philosophy?
Heidegger: Cybernetics.
The 20th century philosopher Heidegger pioneered the philosophy of criticizing technology. In an interview with Der Spiegel in his later years, he said that "cybernetics" has replaced philosophy. There is no doubt that "cybernetics" refers to the Technology. Heidegger called technology a kind of "seat frame" (Ge-Stell/EnFraming), and believed that technology is presented through "challenge/provocation", it "makes unreasonable demands on nature, forcing natural supplies to be both extracted and stored. energy", is a compulsive gathering that forces reality to be revealed as "set-set". In Heidegger's thought, "truth" is understood as "uncovering," bringing things into light, revealing what it is, and making it appear as it is. Of course, technology is also a way of unmasking, but the danger is that technology has become the only way to unmask, "Now, the earth reveals itself as a huge coal mining area, and the land reveals itself as a mine.... .. the air is disposed of with nitrogen, the land with ore, which in turn is disposed of for the production of uranium". This kind of technical thinking has even penetrated into the relationship between people. When people are calculated and used as a ready-made tool or object, isn’t this utilitarian and practical attitude also a kind of attitude towards others? "Challenge"?
then what should we do? It is well known that the subject of Heidegger's life was "being" (Sein); therefore, what Heidegger said was to do "let... be (Gelassenheit)". But what is "let .... exist"? How can we "make.... exist"? The meaning of this phrase is too vague and too broad, people don't know how to operate or even understand. I pondered the text for a long time, hoping to get my thoughts from it, but I didn't expect this "Heidi and Grandpa" to give the best answer.
A friend recommended this movie to me a few months ago. Heidi in the movie is as beautiful as a fairy. Wherever she goes, it is like the arrival of spring, melting all the snow and ice. The aunt took her to the house of the grandfather she had never seen before. On the way, when Heidi saw the sheep grazing, she was so excited that she took off her coat two or three times and ran up the hillside. I heard that this grandfather was very weird, killed people, and didn't want to talk to people. She didn't care, and the warm embrace made grandpa smile. After that, she was sold to a noble family, with all kinds of rules and constraints, and she couldn't go home, but she actually remembered to save a few breads every time she ate, thinking about her grandma who couldn't bite hard food on the mountain. The eldest lady here is kind and gentle, but because of her status and being detained for a long time, she has a small temper: "I want her to stay with me!" But Heidi didn't care, and invited Clara to the mountain with a clumsy letter; The barriers between people's identities are not important at all. Clara got rid of the shadow of her mother's death in the purest joy and stood up staggeringly... The most touching thing to me is the family of the great nobles. They are all unsmiling butlers and trembling servants. The rules stipulate that the young lady and the servants are not allowed to speak, and can only be called "he" when they speak, but Heidi doesn't care at all. What a great transformation this is! Religious philosopher Martin Buber's "I and You", the core content of the whole book, is to explain the two relationships of "I and him" and "I and you". In the relationship of "me and him", the other party is regarded as an object, full of indifference and alienation; but in the relationship of "me and you", I regard the other party as an existence equal to me, with all my true nature We meet each other's true nature, so we can also see the other's divinity.
If we agree with Arendt’s statement and agree that technology has uprooted people from the earth and placed them in a completely different artificial world; then in Heidi and Grandpa, people truly return to nature. Look at the gentle flowers and plants, the clear blue sky, and the peaceful animals, all of which are not just human rhetorical comparisons, but we are coexisting with heaven and earth in a real way. Buddhism has "ego", which has something in common with Heidegger's technical thinking. "Ego" is actually adding my will to everything. If my desire is not fulfilled, I will have" Greed, hatred, delusion". But you won't see any "ego" in Heidi at all, you can only see kindness and concern. It turns out that the so-called "let language and things exist and speak by themselves" is what it means. I don't even need and shouldn't use any concept to describe it, because the concept is also a brutal domination of reality, all logic and analysis are superfluous, I just hate that I don't have a better writing style to get rid of these unnecessary burdens. Here, everything exists freely, everything is so warmly connected, and the purest and most beautiful are quietly surging. The sky is high and cloudless, and the Alps are as beautiful as a fairy tale.
Maybe because watching this movie during the epidemic, I have more crisis awareness in my heart. Humans are destined not to return to nature, and the idyllic life of Li Ziqi or Heidi is only comfort and imagination after all. Human beings are still facing many hardships, political hostility, artificial intelligence challenges, and the division of the community... The future is full of chaos, but if there is warmth, what is there to fear of suffering? Believe that if you hold on to the best part of human character, human beings will always be there, and they will not perish.
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