How Modern Expertise Is Damaging Our Hearing
The advent of modern technologies has undeniably brought a lot consolation to the lives of people. Gone are the days when mother and father frightened about their teenagers wearing indecent garments and moving in the unsuitable social circle of buddies. Life has modified loads; there aren’t any social meetings and get-togethers (the frequency has lowered).
Introducing the Bremen lectures, Heidegger observes that due to expertise, all distances in time and area are shrinking†and yet the hasty setting apart of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness doesn’t consist in a small quantity of distance.†The lectures set out to examine what this nearness is that is still absent and is even warded off by the stressed removing of distances.†As we will see, now we have become nearly incapable of experiencing this nearness, not to mention understanding it, as a result of all issues more and more current themselves to us as technological: we see them and treat them as what Heidegger calls a standing reserve,†provides in a storeroom, as it have been, pieces of stock to be ordered and conscripted, assembled and disassembled, set up and put aside.
26: Science has also brought medical equipments that assist …