[Juenger-list] DIE SCHERE #65: Note 2 [Meandering Musingsetc.]

[Rene de Bakker rbakker@mail.uba.uva.nl]

At 19:47 30-10-00 +0100, G=FCnter Rebing wrote:

>But most people are not at all as sensitive as EJ when looking at the role
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>technology in our world. Even when technology is perceived as a danger the=
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>general opinion is that its problems can be solved by more and better
technology.=20
>To be sure, EJ does not pose as a Luddite here. He does not tell us to get
rid of=20
>technology in order to find salvation. Instead, he asks us to become aware
of an=20
>imbalance in our lives caused by the unreflected adoption of anything that
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>technologically feasible. How to correct that imbalance he leaves to our=20
>judgment.=20
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>So by =BBAbgrenzung zwischen Kultur und Technik=AB EJ could mean a maxim li=
ke
this:=20
>=BBSee to it that technology remains in a subservient role among the=
 various=20
>elements that constitute culture=AB.

We know that Juenger said in 1932: technique is the uniform of the worker,
and in his
latest diaries he repeats that. Technique is titanic force, the end of
which is not
in sight. From time to time, an alarm sounds, as in the case of Bill Joy
(GNR-threat),
or Peter Sloterdijk in Germany ("anthropogenetics"). But reality is going
its own way,
and meanwhile one could ask: is there a way back to "nature"? - Already
Nietzsche said
about Rousseau: where did he want to go back to?=20
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But it is Nietzsche's adagium: remain faithful to the earth, that Juenger
always returns to.
Lately he writes: we must come to know, what the earth wants. And: modern
physics is not the work
of the scientists, they are used, there is a "plan", the earth itself paves
the way.
(Heidegger, in 1937, calls scientists: the most miserable slaves of all=
 times)
It's not so, that we are warming up the earth. The earth uses us to warm it.=
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So, technique, according to Juenger, is inevitable. At the same time, for
the person,
the "Einzelne", it is only derangement. Personnally, he flees it,=20
to places where time comes to a stand, like in 1929 in Sicily.
His stereoscopic experience here, was decisive.=20
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greetings to all,

Ren=E9=20

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drs. Ren=E9 de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering Faculteiten
tel. 020-5252368             =20