sort it is—merely presents a form of the ever-more-blind entanglement in the modern essence of the abandonment by being.
Both are unacquainted with what is question-worthy, except as deformed into “problems.” The question-worthy, however, is what is most profoundly barred and never to be snatched up. To deem worthy that which is question-worthy means to question—to place into the open realm—indeed to first found the open realm and set it up. Deeming worthy is radically different from valuing, which always remains a calculating.—
To deem worthy—to step into the effective sphere of the worthiness— of that—whose worthiness and supreme rank are manifested in its demanding for itself the question—the disclosive questioning— the grounding of the truth itself and of its essence—whereby beyng— which appropriates—its truth—as its most proper essence—is nothing other—than this: the event of appropriation.
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The abandonment of beings by being—even in that way the essential occurrence of beyng is still protected on the basis of beings. Thus it could seem that the only necessity is: to recover beyng for beings (such as they are now interpreted and calculated)—or to liberate them from objectification and machination.
Yet—what if beyng itself has turned away from beings and withdrawn from them? And what if a sign of this withdrawal is that beyng furthermore does not allow itself to be known and appraised from the truth of its essence and that | accordingly all measures of today’s humans apply in no way to beyng but only to their own “lived experiences” in pursuit of which the human being rotates as a hollow globe of self-fleeing boredom.
If matters are such—then indeed concealment must be allowed beyng, even first founded in beyng. Only rarely then could human volition and the human capacity to bear take on the reticent gift of becoming disposed by the abysses of beyng and of experiencing in the most silent thing the appropriating eventuation of the openness of the “there”: the essential occurrence of beyng out of itself.
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Mere calculation takes the future as something standing ahead, as a fixed goal—an object to which the paths are already computed. But when it arises, the future becomes incalculable. Yet the grounding of the future is another process, still alien to us, whereby the grounded becomes a still untrodden ground and an abyss cleared only in a leap.