(Translation of Schicksalsfrage 06-Dec-2015)
        Could it be,
        that the fate of the West
-- even the world --
        depends on 
        clearly seeing,
        on understanding,
        that time itself has no where
        -- is where-less?
        
        That time is another name
        for the mind
        -- for the psyche itself?
        
        That to talk of inside and outside
        with regard to the mind
        -- to time itself --
        is utter 
        -- even dangerous --
        nonsense?
        
        But thinking has long since 
        spatialized time,
        and people
        -- even those who pass on 
        what is left of philosophy today --
        like to talk thoughtlessly
-- unquestioningly and thoughtlessly without end --
        of their thoughts
        'in their head',
        of their
        'inner self',
of 'inner conscience',
of 'inner consciousness',
        of the factually
        sensuous
        'external world',
        of 'withdrawing into their interior selves',
        and so on.
        
        And a thinker
        who shows a way
        out of this relentless,
        sad,
        exhausted impasse
        is ignored,
        scorned,
        and preferably
        -- if ignoring is not enough --
        people would delete him
        -- any trace of him --
         from memory.
        
        People are in love
        with linear time
        -- with the counted time abstracted
        from spatial movement --
        because it still promises
        power.
        Endless the love of power.
        
        Read on: A Question of Time.
 
Yes, it's extraordinary how unthinkingly people talk about their 'inner' selves. It's simply accepted as 'common' knowledge. I have a couple of times brought people's attention to how ludicrous such a statement is, but it's so engrained, they simply can not see it any other way. It's often shrugged away: 'Oh, you know what I mean.' No, not really.
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