The foundering “world” is coming to light through the rushing floods of its wastewaters, which are instituted qua oceans and brought to “immediate intuition.” The “twentieth century” as an Americanized joke book which lacks only that “remnant” of “spirit” whereby it could still poke fun at itself. People pretend to know what is “happening” but do not surmise what is occurring with themselves. Otherwise, they would have to be unsettled by seeing that “the world” is in the American way being transformed into a “warehouse” and that this is what is “German.” But perhaps this is now “German” and “European” and the “style” of one of the “three hemispheres,” of which the “Eurasian” and “Eastasiatic” are distinct only in name from the “fourth” and “first,” the “American” one. Distressed souls speak here of the “Antichrist”; if he came he would remain a harmless lad, over and against what is “happening” and has already found its henchmen.
People now drivel on incessantly about the “situation” (the “ontological condition”) of the human being and in advance | shy away from meditation on being. The oblivion of being on the part of unconditional machination is not greater than that on the part of Christianity and has merely stripped off the mendacity of the double dealing which simultaneously accepts reason and situates it below faith. That the Christian faith and the consummation of metaphysics (a consummation which has become a worldview) fancy themselves the most extreme adversaries is merely evidence of the blindness on both sides. But therefore they can also, according to need, join forces.
Metaphysics.
All things must pass through the complete devastation which is preceded by an annihilation in the most acute form of the apparent preservation of “culture.” Only so is the two-thousand-year-old structure of metaphysics to be convulsed and overthrown. The annihilation and devastation, however, still have the institutional form of metaphysics (“ideas” and “values”).
From national socialism to rational socialism, i.e., to the unconditional calculation and computation of the integration of human domains in themselves and with one another.
This rationality demands the highest spirituality. The essence of the Western spirit as τέχvη.
After the machines for writing, adding, computing, and accounting, the production of a machine for thinking is only a question of “time.”