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over in an emphatic way the dissembling and disguising of the inner disintegration. That is:
4. Divesting, publicizing, and vulgarizing of all attunement. The desolation that is herewith created corresponds to the growing artificiality of every attitude and together with that the disempowering of the word. The word then is only the shell and magnified stimulation, in which there can no longer be a connection to a "meaning,~ because all gathering of a possible mindfulness is removed and mindfulness itself is scorned as something strange and weak.
All of this becomes all the more uncanny, the less obtrusively it is played out and the more automatically it takes possession of everydayness and, as it were, is covered by the new forms of establishment.
The consequence of divesting attunement, which at the same time disguises the growing emptiness, shows itself finally in the incapacity to experience [erfahren] the very and actual happening. the abandonment of being, as attuning distress-granted that it could be shown within certain limits.
5. All of these signs of abandonment of being point to the beginning of the epoch of total lack of questioning of all things and of all machinations.
It is not only that basically nothing hidden will be admitted any more, but what is more decisive is that self-sheltering as such, as determining power, is no longer allowed entry.
In the epoch of total lack of questioning, however, "problems" will pile up and rush around, those types of "questions" which are not really questions, because their response dare not have anything binding about them, insofar as it immediately becomes a problem again. This says exactly and in advance that nothing is immune to dissolution and that deconstruction [Auflösung] is only a matter of numbers regarding time, space, and force.
6. But now, since beings are abandoned by be-ing, the opportunity arises for the most insipid "sentimentality." Now for the first time everything is "experienced live" [erlebt] and every undertaking and performance drips with "lived-experiences" [Erlebnisse]. And this "lived-experience" proves that now even man as a being has incurred the loss of be-ing and has fallen prey to his hunt for lived-experiences.
59. The Epoch of Total Lack of Questioning
and Enchantment
One is accustomed to calling the epoch of "civilization" one of disenchantment, and this seems for its part exclusively to be the same as the total lack of questioning. However. it is exactly the opposite. One has only to know from where the enchantment comes. The answer: from the unrestrained domination of machination. When machination