As soon as it no longer knows its commitments to be useful, i.e., leading to fulfillment of some goal, and practically possible, an agent is able to undo these commitments.
Having denied the heart's feelings for so long, they no longer know what it feels.
Shock effects of the mass-market or avant-garde variety are now so routine that we no longer know what it's like to go slowly, majestically, and irreversibly over the edge.
Heidegger's contribution to the sense of de-realization of the world stems from oft repeated remarks such as: "Everywhere we are underway amid beings, and yet we no longer know how it stands with being" (Heidegger 2000 [1953], 217), and "precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e., his essence" (Heidegger 1993, 332).
The need to do this is also underscored by the fact that Rosenstock-Huessy was a thinker who wished to explicate what it means to be a Christian in a post-Christian age, i.e. in an age where most people not only no longer know what it means to be Christian but do not know that they do not know, and yet, nevertheless, are far more Christian than they realize.
We no longer know how it feels to feel good or proud of ourselves.
Those who believe that history is a progressive march toward human perfectibility, and that they have the moral right to force this progress on others, no longer know what it is to be human.
"I think tackling the effects of a whole year of stalking will take a bit longer, but I know it can be done eventually.
Do they want to go on living when the fog moves in, when they no longer know what day it is, and loved ones become strangers?
