----- Original Message ----- From: "jean.laferte" <jean.laferte@free.fr> > > As for EJ, he was """appreciated""" by only a.h. [=Adolf Hitler] and not > by the entourage, Not correct. Juenger also had some "fans" among high-ranking SS officers. And don't forget: He knew some of them (Werner Best, e.g.) personally, as they had marched together in the 1920s. > > "Perhaps we are already at the end of - and outside - history. .../... > > This, too, would be a repetition, but in a longer cycle whose intervals > > are measured by geological epochs instead of historical periods." > > This is the old theme of the end of history that Mr Fukuyama renewed in > the earlier nineties. It's not. You deleted the very sentence from the Juenger quote that sets him miles apart from Fukuyama. That sentence is: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "There are many signs that the world revolution is linked to a revolution of the earth, which envelops it and determines its direction." (from "Prognoses", 1993) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What Juenger is suggesting here among others is that what we perceive as a man-made destruction of nature is not caused or controlled by the human race at all but part of a natural process "in a longer cycle whose intervals are measured by geological epochs instead of historical periods." Juenger believed that the earth is a living organism and mankind probably just a means for the earth to renew or gain consciousness of itself. As I said earlier on: A bit New Agey. But definitely not something that you'd find anywhere in Fukuyama. Regards, RBR - - - - - - - - - - - - "Just for one split second I saw the Great Work of man As he turned the forests Into deserts of sand" Killing Joke "Intravenous"
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