This remark is famous. alluded to by Coetzee, Cavill, others and

[Mark Kohut]

perhaps behind TRP's use in the cattle to slaughter scene (and riff) within Against the Day, wherein TRP seems to use
the link from his beloved Weber--on rationalisation---to this linkage from Heidegger. yes?
 
In his postwar thinking, Heidegger distanced himself from Nazism, but his critical comments about Nazism seem "scandalous" to some since they tend to equate the Nazi war atrocities with other inhumane practices related to rationalisation and industrialisation, including the treatment of animals by factory farming. For instance in a lecture delivered at Bremen in 1949, Heidegger said: "Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs."[93]
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