The essence of positionality is the collected positioning that pursues its own essential truth with forgetfulness, a pursuit disguised in that it unfolds in the requisitioning of everything that presences as standing reserve, establishing itself in this and ruling as this.
Positionality essences as the danger. But does the danger already exist as the danger? No. Perils and distresses immeasurably press upon humans everywhere at every hour. But the danger, namely beyng itself in the self-endangering truth of its essence, remains veiled and disguised. This disguising is what is most dangerous about the danger. Through this disguising of the danger in the requisitioning of positionality it always appears ever again as though technology were a means in the hand of the human. In truth, however, the essence of the human is now ordered to give a hand to the essence of technology.
Does this say that the human is powerless against technology and delivered over to it for better or worse? No. It says exactly the opposite; not only this, but essentially more, because it says something other than this.
If positionality is an essential destiny of beyng itself, then we may suppose that, as one essential way of beyng among others, positionality changes. For what is destinal in the dispensation is that it sends itself each time in a sending. To send oneself [sich schicken, to be fitting, suitable; to reconcile oneself with] means to set out to comply with the indicated directive, upon which another still-veiled dispensation awaits. In itself, the destinal goes forth each time to an exceptional moment, which it sends in another dispensation, though without simply