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Ponderings XV [260–262]

Neither annihilation nor ordering nor new ordering can essentially satisfy a historical determination; what can do so is only the poetizing of the essence of being and the constructing of a grounded affiliation to being.


Globalism is the historiologically conceived determination of the abandonment of beings by being, inasmuch as this abandonment is everywhere the same and covers the entire earth. The homogeneity and leveling down of humanity to a kind of achievement of an order of life, | despite the apparent heterogeneity in the provenance and scope of the “cultures” and the communal [volklich] assets (Japan, America, Europe), have their essential ground in the circumstance that power itself, as soon as it attains unconditional empowerment, intrinsically demands a sameness, a monotony, in its ever more simple means. Every power tries to expand and thereby collides with every other one in the same machination. This sameness of essence is the ground of the historiologically determinable totality and unconditionality of the essence of power.


At the start of the third year of the global war.—Ordinary understanding would very much like to calculate history and yearns for a “balance sheet.” Moreover, there are humans who are past help by accomplishments, no matter how impressive the latter are. Thus insofar as we think only historiologically and not historically and still incorporate globalism into the change of history, instead of using it merely and at most | geographically, as the framework of “historiological” incidents, and insofar as we allow only “facts” to be valid, ones that are always only half true and therefore are erroneous—insofar as we do all this, the following observations might be encountered:

1. We have been gaining victories now for two whole years.

2. The number of those to be provided for will grow, since even the conquered regions will be subject to blockade.

3. The regions to be administered will extend more and more.

4. The possibilities of political activity will all be exhausted, since there is no longer any partnership.

5. The multiple-front war, which through a brilliant politics was held to be eliminated as a main danger, is a matter of fact through our own resolution.

6. The opportunity for an essential decision within the sole remaining confrontation as regards the war has disappeared.

7. In all regions of procedure and planning, the only visible goal is a single mere “and so forth.”


Ponderings XII-XV (GA 96) by Martin Heidegger