-- [ From: e-ensign * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- richard_al@csi.com wrote: >Unfortunately I'm not the richard of Wilflingen. Well, I'm the Richard of Wilflingen. >The serbian people who contest with a target on them are imho >objective jungerians. To me they're fools. They lack not only an understanding of the highly complex political and military situation, which to some extent is understandable because they're fed by a state-controlled propaganda machinery. What's more important: they behave in a way that is diametrically opposed to everything Juenger wrote about war, civil war and the role of the individual therein. For example, on June 14th, 1942 Juenger wrote (albeit in a different context ): >>Das sind Naturen, die noch nicht wissen, dass die Zeiten der Diskussion vorueber sind. Auch setzen sie beim Gegner Sinn fuer Humor voraus. So gleichen sie Kindern, die Faehnchen schwingend in Gewaessern, in denen Haifische schwimmen, baden gehen. Sie machen sich kenntlicher.<< No "anarch" would ever stand on a bridge to voice his protest in public. When you say ... >I 'd like to underline the bring of the EJ works in this affair. ... then we should perhaps sort out first which works are the most relevant in our context. Are we talking about the Ernst Juenger of the 1920s - a nationalist fanatic, who - as John has pointed out - turned the cult of the nation into some sort of ersatz religion? The chauvinistic hardliners in Serbia would surely prefer the Juenger of this period. Or do we turn to the Juenger of later decades, who wrote books like "Der Weltstaat"? >>I should mention, that I also wrote a book with the title The World State. There are things in there that the Greens would also have to approve of, for example that in a world state the borders would fall away, but the familiar local surroundings would remain, would bloom.<< (Juenger in a 1982 interview with Der Spiegel) In 1993, in his Venice Biennale essay "Gestaltwandel," Juenger affirmed once more the emerging world state (which, at least in its initial phases, cannot be but dominated by America and the West in general). In a passage of "Gestaltwandel" he commented specifically on the changing role of the military: >>Not even the world state will succeed in abolishing violence, which is a part of creation. War will take the form of a policing operation, on a smaller or larger scale. Since the state will have a monopoly on nuclear weapons, insurrection will be pointless, but terrorism will increase.<< However, Juenger was in no way an Atlanticist. But he always accepted existing facts and powers and after the outbreak of WWII he became highly sceptical of all overt forms of "resistance," especially if they were motivated by pure nationalism. >In spite of the fact my grand-father, an officer in the Royale (french >navy) took place in the help and saving of the serbian army in >Corfou in WW1, I 'd like to underline the bring of the EJ works in >this affair. That's one of the main problems in this whole affair: that some people prefer to live either in 1389 or 1914, but not in 1999. >What would we say if, for one reason or another , Corsican people >where forced to be concentrated in the Elbe Island, and then an >orwellian organisation decided to bombard the Concord Place, the >Pont Neuf, some bridges in Lyon (many bridges in this two-river >town) ... What would we say? I would say that you miss the point. If there's an >>orwellian organisation<< here, it's located in Belgrade. >The medias tell us and them a cartoonist story, a comic strip with a >very dangerous wolf on one hand, and a lot of miserable and gentle >people on the other. The situation is of course more complicated. It is, for instance, highly problematic that German fighter planes are participating in the raids on Belgrade. But let's face it: Milosevic, Arkan et al. have pushed their luck too far this time. And now they - and with them unfortunately the whole people of Serbia - are paying the price. Not only for Kosovo, but for having fooled the West in Bosnia as well. Regards, RBR
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