The history of western thought, and western history itself, has no discernible origin, but the starting point is clear - we think in representation of that which is present. Therefore, it’s ultimate consequence lies in purely superficial judgement, it’s aspiration is towards the most unquestionable representation of being. Clarity for beings sake. We have reached the consummation point of this culture. Being cannot be represented with more obviousness than it has in the 1990’s, and we are noticing the results of this reaching of the limit in the stagnation of the representative powers of our culture. We are no longer represented in accordance with our will - not because the representing units are flawed in their representation of being - on the contrary - their representation of being strikes us suddenly as too effective, as banal. What has changed is our will. We no longer aspire towards representation of being - something new has taken hold of us. What is this new thing?
Up until now, thought has been considered to be that which can de decuded and induced. It has been a passive modus of existence, deriving from that which is allready present. It offers us nothing, it only reflects, and presents new versions of that which is allready there. Thought, thusfar, has not been real in itself.
What has changed? Most evidently, the in- and deducing mechanics that constitute science have brought us to contradictions irreconcilable with the techniques that have brought them forth. Put simply, the represented has shown itself to be a function of that which it is presented to. Man thinks he has discovered a new representation of reality which needs to be elaborated upon in allready existing terms of being to understand it. In reality, he has discovered something outside of being - something outside of representation. He has struck on artery of thought itself.
That he has no means to understand this discovery is logical - he has discovered the the inside of his understanding from the outside. Paradox upon paradox appears before him as he tries to unravel what has happened. The discovery becomes less understandable as more energy and effort is put into understanding it, which is natural, because this very energy and effort is what is being examined, and as it grows, it becomes more complex. What man needs to do now is to step back, and recognize that something has appeared before him which is impossible to comprehend in the terms he has used since the beginning of his western culture. In other words - he has reached the end of his culture. Now he must transcend it into a new form of existence, or die with the old form. All efforts to revive the old form are not only futile, but a violation of existence - all they will accomplish is an intensification of the representation of death, which one may imagine as terror, nihilistc warfar, ultimately, the destruction of nature. This need not happen, but it will if man fails to make one simple gesture towards himself; to take a step back.