Fw: Arendt and Heidegger, the postwar 'friendship"

[Michael Bailey]

Guys, guys, ain't you heard of compromisation?  Remember the one about the
sock tucker, the cork soaker and the coke sacker?

I gather, as one might gather nuts in May (here we go blithering nuts in
May...) that this Heidegger dude was a philosopher of some repute and may
have had some fairly interesting things to say (which is possible, I guess)
and that that Hannah Arendt (yes she are...) made some philosophical hay
out of the postwar coming to grips with the Holocaust (insofar as there can
be any coming to grips with such monstrosity)

So that Mark's speculation on their relations is the sort of shocking
addendum that may have given Kai the same sort of jolt as I got reading (lo
these many years ago) Abbie Hofmann's _Revolution for the Hell of it_
wherein he recounts encountering a liberal priest at an antiwar rally or
someplace and telling him, "go fuck a nun"

A comment like that is made for pure outrageousness and was in keeping with
Abbie's public image but Mark's comments usually run to more thoughtful
territory...

Yes I guess it is in keeping with a theme of FATF (female attraction to
fascists) but Heidegger wasn't so much an operative a la Brock Vond or
Windust or Deuce (not deuce Bigelow, he wasn't at all fascist), rather...
- a-and I think this is a point Kai has been sharpening - his writings were
co-opted (not without a degree of consent) as apologia for the odious deeds.

Anyway one might be taken aback by the conjuring of specific carnality in
the case of these widely-considered-August personages, but as somebody said
in GR, "he came out of a quim just like you"

Ayn Rand probably would've jumped his bones as well...
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