-----Mensaje original----- De: Bertil Haggman Enviado el: lunes 18 de mayo de 1998 6:29 Para: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk Asunto: Re: 12th Contribution by Bertil Haggman from _Die Schere_ 172 (p. 122) "In diesem Rahmen ist die Rueckkehr von Promethiden ein Ereignis unter anderen. Prometheus ist der Bote der Titanen zu den Goettern; er wetteifert mit ihnen, doch reicht er nicht an sie heran. Was Goetter durch ein 'Es werde' schaffen, etwa den Menschen, bedeutet fuer ihn harte Fron. Prometheus bildet Menschen, doch erschafft sie nicht. Immerhin koennte man mit den Titanen auskommen. Das Zeitalter des Kronos galt bei den Alten trotz seiner Grausamkeiten fuer das Goldene. Die Menschen alterten nicht und ueberlebten geistig, nachdem sie entschlummert waren - das geht noch ueber Huxley hinaus. Auf die Rueckkehr titanischen Wessens in die Gestalt des Arbeiters verweist der Zustrom plutonischer Energie, die voresrtst eher gefuerchtet, ja negiert wird als bherrscht. Das wird erst moeglich, wenn sie sich personifiziert. Auch hier ist die Buehne gerichtet, bevor das Schauspiel beginnt. Gerichtet heisst sowohl geruestet wie auf- geraeumt. Das Publikum ist zur Stelle, die Erwartung auch. Dass Titanen letzthin nicht genuegen, hat das Scheitern des nach ihnen getauften Schiffes am Eisberg augurisch bestimmt. Es ist selten, dass Kassandra so in die Einzelheiten geht." Commentary It is in my opinion extraordinary that EJ brought up the Titanic in 1990, as we have all in 1998 been reminded of the catastrophe by the succesful movie of James Cameron. He commented on the night of the Oscar gala 1998 on the sinking of Titanic: 'The sense was that they were in the shining, golden, upwards spiral of progress and that everything was only to get better and better, and nicer and nicer: now we have electric light, we have subways, and we have flying machines, and we have transatlantic travel through the power of steam, which is what the Titanic represents. And the telephone had just been invented, and movies were new and people were exited about that. There was recording of music for the first time, wireless telecommunications. All of these things that we of course take for granted were new at that time. So there is this tremendous optimism, this tremendous excitement. If we understand and absorb the message of the warning against putting our faith optimisti- cally in technology, putting your faith optimistically in the application of technology by flawed systems, because it was really human failures that sank the Titanic, not the ship itself. The technology itself was fine. It was the state of the art the time. Titanic was a well made ship. Its hard to criticise its mode of fabrication. It was just piloted into an iceberg in the middle of the ocean. It was not meant to survive that. There are many metaphors that can be gleaned from the Titanic. All that, I think, accounts for its continuing fascination for the public at large with a disaster that happened 85 years ago.' [Roberto Calvo Macias] But he lets unresolved one of the big discussions of this Time, and of EJ vision of life ( quoted from another point of view by MH). Can we control tecnology? The failures of tecnology are our failures? in wich measure is the singular person responsive from tecnology dangers? Best wishes roberto Greetings Bertil Haggman
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