Natural Evil

[Angrboda]

"Dasein’s inauthentic being in the world can be seen as a threefold temporal structure made up of idle talk, curiosity, and ambiguity. In idle talk, Dasein hears something without grasping the depth of the topic, and passes the word along to other Daseins, who then pass it along still further … It is impossible for the reader of any book to know how much of the material was grasped by the author with firsthand insight, and how much of it is just empty cliché heard from others and passed along as intellectual gossip. As a structure of the they, idle talk thinks that it understands everything, but puts no work into seeing anything on its own."

ibid.


This just seems somehow strangely appropriate here.