Ernst Jünger: War and the utopy of order... (8)
Yes! Like most people I frequently lose sleep thinking about the Nietzschean apotegm thingy!
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Godsgift: Yes! Like most people I frequently lose sleep thinking about the Nietzschean apotegm thingy!
Hi!...I do not understand your statement but thanks for replying...
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Yeah... like the Aldous Huxley utopia...
some meant to be wolves, some to be sheep...
some meant to be wolves, some to be sheep...
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Antjo39: finest anarchist thinkers
finest anarchist thinkers.
A contradiction in terms.
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MADDOG69: finest anarchist thinkers.
A contradiction in terms.
Probably it is...A contradiction in terms.
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'It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.'
'In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman'
'The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.'
From The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, 1917.
'In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman'
'The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.'
From The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, 1917.
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Rumple4skin: 'It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.'
'In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman'
'The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.'
From The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, 1917.
'In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman'
'The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.'
From The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, 1917.
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In his long and adventurous life, Juenger has understood in many ways the harmful utopia of modern times and has seen its evolution not to the suppression of all wars but to the subjugation of mankind to their machines and technology just to dull the best aspects of our nature and to facilitate our material brutalization and the prospect of massive extermination.
Juenger sees war and the drive for motion and adventure in us as a biological acquisiton from our ancestors, not good not bad, just something defining us. However, our own works, our own accumulkation of wealth and the use of machines have put us to the brink of suppressing all that from our nature.
THis essay reflect the thoughts of one of the finest anarchist thinkers of all times: