Dear list-members! According to Caterina Resta (who wrote a very accurate book on him) Juenger imagined an age where tecnology will have reached its completion. According to her he asserted that this stadium was necessary to allow earth finally to show its spiritualized face. The distruction which goes forth everywhere in this vision is only a first - painful - phase of the Arbeiter's passage; it creates a partial order. only when this order will be total, the total mobilisation will - when tecnology will be completed - show the motionless quietness of its intime essence. I wonder how one can believe that tecnology can ever be complete. What the hell does he mean? Every efficient solution of a problem causes new problems. So, what does he mean? A situation in which it will not be necessary any more that tecnology will offer solutions for problems caused by tecnological solutions? Is there someone who can quote J with reference to this specific context? Regards, Martin
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