Heidegger - Self-Certainty

In this process, which we grasp only extrinsically as long as we think of it as 'world-imperialism,' absolute subjectivity attains its consummation even according to the circumstance that for humans now there remains altogether no means of escape on earth; that is, the self-certainty of the subjectum has now been caught and enclosed unconditionally in its most proper distorted essence, and self-relatedness, in the sense of absolute reflexion, has become definitive.  This unconditional self-entanglement of humans in their own metaphysical perplexity is confirmed in that to such common understanding (now wasted away into something most common) this all appears as 'breadth,' 'fullness,' and 'freedom.'  To 'see' all this merely means to grasp the abandonment of beings by being.  But how nevertheless to relate this abandonment, as the essential occurrence of being, to the forgetting of being? (Written on the way to the hut.)    


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