Further on _Die Perfektion der Technik_

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

Mohler is writing on FGJ under the heading "Die Leitbilder" 
in _Die konservative Revolution... (1972; 2nd ed.).

"Friedrich Georg Juenger zeichnet in _Die Perfektion der Technik_ die
"lineare" Welt auf ihrer Hoehe und zugleich an ihrem Ende: die
Technik als Verschleuderung der Fuelle, als blosser Verzehr".
(Seite 100)

This in connection with the view of Mohler that "eternal return" plays
an important role in the ideology of the Conservative revolution. The
ever more dominating technology in the view of FGJ seems to be the
final flowering of civilization and thus expresses his adherence to the
cyclical view of world history. _Die Perfektion der Technik_ was first
published in 1946 and one can of course in 1999 ponder the question whether
FGJ's prognosis was correct. We seem to enter an ever continuing
linear period of steady development, progress and increasing wealth.

Best wishes

Bertil Haggman