The Event (das Ereignis)

I had just finished an early morning poodlewalk along the coastal path  between Kings and Dep's Beach in Waitpinga.   I was  near  to the car at the Whale Lookout and I was just about to get into the car and looked north  from the coastal path  to  the agricultural fields  when this event happened --ie., came into presence: 

This event briefly created a clearing ("Lichtung") where something different to the world of agriculture (one of instrumentality and technology that enframes the earth as a resource) briefly appeared. 

Agriculture in the Fleurieu Peninsula  represents  the triumph of human beings' ability to take hold of the world, control and dominate it entirely from a secure ground. This  historical transformation of nature ensured that  agriculture --- grazing, cropping and  vineyards --- is dominant in the Fleurieu Peninsula.  It is seen as an unalterable fact of modem life and it reveals the  way in which both beings (cattle, people etc) are made manifest for practical use and how nature is reduced to nothing but a pile of resources available for use. 

For Heidegger, the "event" (das Ereignis) relates to disclosure and withdrawal. It is not things coming into being, but rather already-being things becoming into presence. It signals the showing (Er-eigen) and bringing into view (Er-eugen, Eraügen) of what lights up and shows itself. This marks  the "other" beginning from the point of view of the truth or clearing (Lichtung). This opens up the possibility of twisting free from the world of agriculture which is blind to  a different way of viewing the earth. 

Blind in the sense of we lose sight of this different way in our received interpretations of the world that enframe  nature as  a resource in an instrumentally ordered way.