Mankind being ahead for-himself; Heidegger and Inertia

 In politics mankind often gets ahead of himself. Europeans built a political weltanshauung around the Soviet Union and associated that with Russia. They happily tossed that out, with Bill Clinton's mentoring, to sever Russia from the Crimea and Donbas to form a post Cold War political distribution real estate favorable to themselves. Russia could be regarded as the aggressor of the former Soviet Union and historical Russian- land rather than Soviet, could be forgotten in a case of false consciusness.

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While Russia was completely disorganized it was tempting to reduce it in size. The result was the rise of conflict as the schism grew between Russia and the west. The west grew more fearful of Russia viewing it as a big bear threatening former Warsaw Pact nations. When Russia captured the Crimea and invaded Ukraine that European fear was imagined to be confirmed and Russia was seen as trying to capture everything from Warsaw even to Paris I would think. Everyone in Europe sent weapons to Ukraine. The past from the present perspective contained the seeds or forms for the future. It was historical determinism at its most plain. I was disappointed that mankind was so deterministic as if they were stupid machines with bad programming.

I am not sure that the continuity of form that goes forward in time with the inertia of being is a great insight; useful perhaps since one may plan better for harvesting fruit from orchards and field crops as the principle of futures emerging from the continuity of the present exists for everything that exists at some point in their existence. The difference between people and annual vegetables is significant however. One should be aware the humans can change quite a bit in time being and becoming more overweight or learning new tricks while on the other hand trees in a forest simple get a little larger or smaller annually as rainfall and other factors such as logging bring life changing impact.

I took a course in Kierkegaard and Socratic Irony a few years ago that was quite good. The dynamic tension between society and the individual and that of German 19th century idealists and romantics appeared as exemplifying a perennial theme even Nietzsche reflected in his philosopher as detached from the ordinary point of view of the man on the street or their rulers in politics. Morals and ethics tended to flow in those systems with sycophantic waves of emulations without reflective deliberation. One other thing that emerged in the course of the course was the confusion of European philosophy as it merged to consensus among different heterodox cultures with mass subjective epistemological relativism, empathetic emulation of silly viewpoints and so forth. Common sense may be lacking in contemporary European political philosophy. Being well informed in history too can be helpful.