> I think it was very prescient of J, in the 1950's, to look beyond > the Stalinist threat of monolithic mind control, which was more > prominent and pressing, to the more seductive and ultimately more > successful threat of entertaining stultification. In that decade (the Fifties) there were several US Sf writers which dealt with the idea of an entertaining/consummerist totalitarianism (all this is not so far from Adorno's insights, btw): people like Robert Sheckley, Pohl & Kornbluth, the young Philip Dick. Unfortunately they didn't know Juenger's achivement--and he ignored them. But I notice more and more how close Juenger came to the themes and issues of the best Sf writers... Umberto Rossi Se non sei sul web, hai torto! If you're not on the web, you're wrong! Umberto Rossi Se non sei sul web, hai torto! If you're not on the web, you're wrong!
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