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We find echoes of this alarmist rhetoric in Heideggers famous 1935 lectures but as we
see again, there are important differences also:
This Europe, in its unholy blindness always on the point of cutting its own throat,
lies today in the great pincers between Russia on the one side and America on
the other. Russia and America, seen metaphysically, are both the same: the same
hopeless frenzy of unchained technology and of the rootless organization of the
average man. When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, at any