Re: The Anarch

[03643518060-0001@t-online.de (christopher brown)]

Roberto Calvo Macias wrote:



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> > In my opinion the Anarch is Jünger's crowning creation, whether this is recognized yet or not. I hope by this effort to contribute to a broader recognition of this figure and his lessons on living in the world.
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> I think there is a problem with trying to claim the Anarch as a crowning
> creation.  Indeed, discovery might be a better word than creation.
> Beyond that, I don't think the Anarch makes sense except in the context
> of the whole of Jünger's thinking.  If we did not live in an age when
> all the ideals were dead, as he has said, why be an Anarch?  There are a
> number of reasons, but it is not so clear.  If the Titans were not in
> control, maybe it would not be desirable not to "drop out" as the anarch
> does.
> 
I agree this Anarch to me as interesting as he is is an Autobiography. I
think Juenger uses it as a means to show his experience as an anarch.
What it was that permitted him to live through those times which were so
dangerous.
This is not the position of the Activist. And I think we will see that
the next step for EJ is the Waldgaenger. Which Venator prepares for in
the book. So in this sense there is a "crown on the crown". That means
the Anarch preceeds the Waldgang.
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> > (Regarding the psychological testing which the Condors's staff have to undergo to be hired:)
> >
> > "They found no mischief in me. I remained normal, however deeply they probed. And also straight as an arrow. To be sure, normality seldom coincides with straightness. Normalcy is the human constitution; straightness is logical reasoning. With its help, I could answer satisfactorily. In contrast, the human element is at once so general and so intricately encoded that they fail to perceive it, like the air that they breathe. Thus they were unable to penetrate my fundamental structure, which is a

> It is interesting that this anarchic nature is seen as an ambivalent,
> 
> angerous force.  It reminds me of states of ecstasy encountered in the
> context of ancient mystery cults, for example.  I think that the key to
> keeping it from being destructive is discipline, and I think that this
> is a quality that Venator very well embodies, to a degree the Greeks, or
> the Prussians would probably find admirable.
> 
> >         Distinctions must be made here: love is anarchic, marriage is not. The warrior is anarchic, the soldier is not. Manslaughter is anarchic, murder is not. Christ is anarchic, Saint Paul is not. Since, of course, the anarchic is normal, it is also present in Saint Paul, and sometimes it erupts mightily from him. Those are not antitheses but degrees. The history of the world is moved by anarchy. In sum: the free human being is anarchic, the anarchist is not."
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> The dichotomy between the free human being and the anarchist is
> important.  While the Anarchist seeks only external freedom, the anarch
> is free internally, whatever the outer circumstances may be.  The
> anarchist fits into the system, by trying to weaken it, he instead
> strengthens it.  Current examples would include Timothy McVeigh and the
> Unabomber, neither one of whom managed to do anything but give the US
> government an excuse to tighten certain laws.  Indeed, I heard an
> interesting segment, I think it was on National Public Radio, about how
> The "Unabomber Manifesto" has become very popular in anarchist circles.
> They recognize one of their own I guess.  Unfortunately they do not seem
> to see that he accomplished nothing.
> 
> GERD
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> [Roberto Calvo Macias]  Gerd, I am completely agree with you. The most important thing to me is just the internal freedom, Thats the breakpoint: to know how it is. To look for the answers inside. Again its open the eternal game, Fate and Liberty, and again the J answer. Its not the point to win or not- externally, of course, the point is to win inside, the rest its pure fashion, goverments, a other vanishing things.
> A question: Is there a real good ethos?, a valid one?. I mean: what to do in a critical cuestion?. The ethic side of the anarch seems to me the most difficult part.
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