Heidegger - The Consumption of Beings

The consumption of beings is such and in its course determined by armament in the metaphysical sense, through which man makes himself the 'master' of what is 'elemental'.  The consumption includes the ordered use of beings which become the opportunity and the material for feats and their escalation.  This use is employed for the utility of armaments.  In the unconditionality of escalation and the self-guaranteeing of armaments running out, this use in truth has aimlessness as its aim, the using is a using up.




M. Heidegger, Uberwindung der Metaphysik, 1954.