So according to Heidegger, living authentically means not just accepting what society wants of you...

So according to Heidegger, living authentically means not just accepting what society wants of you, but finding your own "genuine" way of living.

Do you guys agree? How can one find out more about themselves when they're swamped with society's responsibilities?

Take a walk inna woods.

I live in SoCal, there are no woods :-(

I usually take Paxil

drop acid until you get ego death and you will be able to see yourself from outside while still being inside, unless you actually hallucinate yourself getting out of your body

Walk inna desert is fine, too, just bring water.

>following responsibilities

Is Heidegger one of those people that doesn't get remembered as a National Socialist because he made an objectively positive addition to his field?

Yeah. If that happens then you'll forever be trapped outside of your vegetative body. This is where Heidegger's arguments lose their steam.

So this is that fabled deep philosophy Veeky Forums keep talking about?
>just b yourself :D

t. das Man

You could always read Heidegger, and not just posts on c/lit/

There are more than enough people that are trying a post-mortem character assassination on him, especially in Germany

Nope, that's really not the case.

t. der letzte Mensch

What's with Veeky Forums's obsession with drugs?

Heidegger, together with Wilhelm Reich, was a key influence on the Californian Counterculture and by extension New Age spirituality, Sillicon Valley and the totality of twentieth first century culture, via german emigrees, Fritz Perls' Gestalt Psychoterapy and the ESALEN institute.

I would very much appreciate a lengthy elaboration if you're up for it.

Gain an understanding and appreciation of the Divine. Whether that takes the form of a personified singular Divine or merely the shared spark of the Divine within all of life, gaining a sense of it removes you from the fortified traps of contemporary society and allows you to experience the eternal aspects of yourself in relation to eternity. It is only in this relation that you can have the perspective to understand the potentiality of your specific being, and in a manner completely freed from mankind's signified illusions.

How about you actually read Heidegger instead of watching a 5 minute youtube video and reading a wikipedia summary? Then start a thread

Yeah, can you talk more about this?

but i don't want to :-(