Only a god can save us

>What am I missing?
That we are talking about the specifics of a detail in Heidegger's larger unfolding in 'The Origin of The Work of Art', which also includes very sharp philosophical analyses on the ways in which what constitutes a 'thing' have historically been theorized in philosophy and phenomenological reflection at length on the fundamental event with which things are given to us. I think Heidegger is sharpest when he does his historical analyses and the whole project of doing ontology with a phenomenological basis makes much more intuitive sense to me than classic metaphysics or scientific theory. Especially given the fact that - and this is what the phenomenologists stress from the beginning - the way the world is given to us is first of all pre-theoretical with a basis in a life-world.

This.