a dialectical game. In fact, this reversal is merely a fleeting and external sign of the turning which essentially occurs in beyng itself and which casts light on what might be meant here by "decision."
45. The "decision"
The decision which dawned, already long ago, in the concealed and dissimulated is the decision regarding history or loss of history. History: conceived as the playing out of the strife between earth and world, assumed and performed out of the belonging to the call of the event as the essential occurrence of the truth of beyng in the form of the last god.
The decision arises through an experience of the necessity of the most extreme assignment from the innermost plight of the abandonment by being and through the empowering of this necessity to constant power.
The assignment in the light and on the path of the decision is, however, the sheltering of the truth of the event into the great stillness of beyng out of the restraint of Dasein.
How does the decision arise? Through the bestowal or withholding of those eminent and distinctive ones whom we call "the future ones" in contrast to the multifarious, fortuitous, and countless "later ones" who have nothing more in front of themselves and nothing more behind themselves.
Among these distinctive future ones are:
1. Those few single ones who, on the essential paths of grounding Dasein (poetry—thinking—deed—sacrifice), ground in advance the sites and moments for the realms of beings. In this way they create the essentially occurring possibility for the various shelterings of truth in which Da-sein becomes historical.
2. Those numerous affiliated ones to whom it is given, in virtue of their understanding of the knowing will and of the groundings of the single ones, to surmise and to make visible, by carrying them out, the laws of the re-creation of beings as well as the laws of the preservation of the earth and of the projection of the world in the strife between earth and world.
3. Those many who are referred to one another according to their common historical (earthly-worldly) origin, through whom and for whom the re-creation of beings and thereby the grounding of the truth of the event acquire constancy.
4. The single ones, the few, and the many (not taken in terms of their numbers, but with respect to their distinctiveness) still partially