Heidegger said this:

Existential analysis has the character of doing violence, whether to the claims of the everyday interpretation, or to its complacency and its tranquillized obviousness.

I think there is so much in this sentence that it encompasses all of life its beauty and tragedy… all that humans do are in this one sentence… for me…

I am going to give you a couple of examples… First lets look at the sentence “This is my car.” Well, we can see the car, the car exists. We can point to it. We can see “me” I exist.. I can point to me… But where is “my car?” Where does that exist… I cannot point to something called “my car.” Hmmm. You can show me the Title to the car… well that is just a piece of paper with marks on it. “My car” does not exist in the physical world… “My car” lives in language… Language is a big-time agreement among humans and it carries so many “Truths.” We agree that if I have this Title with my name written on it (which is also an agreement that my name “Okan” looks like the scribble that it is) then I have domain over the car…

Lets take a look at another example… The hole in the ozone layer is bad. Well… lets see. If I was to suck up all the humans off the planet, and left everything else on the planet here… houses, cars, animals, everything else is here… but no humans. Given this condition let me ask you… Is the hole in the ozone layer a problem? Is it? Of course it is not… If there is no human looking at it it is not a problem. Lets take it a bit further… Is the hole in the ozone layer even a “hole?” Of course it is not… “Hole” lives in Language and only human beings have language…

Well what you do with this is what you do with this… I do a lot with this… Notice that “Language” is the trap. And makes me wonder whether if I am using it or it is using me…

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