Hello there Carlos, and everybody else,
> I must admit this is my second disappointment with Juenger. > The first one was his support of the Greens (and all of that > New Age bullshit). Maybe a by-product > of his old age. > > Carlos Mancini I'm not at all sure how to phrase this properly: I'm not out to offend anyone and I certainly don't want to start a flame war. But: I certainly think that you have no right to be disappointed by Juenger because he doesn't voice your exact opinions. That Juenger never has supported the Greens in any way, only had come to a few of the same conclusions, is beside the point. Juenger will never be the figurehead for any one political thought or movement or whatever. People have tried to make him into just that (Hitler and Goebbels among them) but he never ever went for it. What makes Juenger so fascinating is the very bandwidth (if that's the right word) of his thoughts. There are parts in his Werke that I (who if anything would consider himself "left of the middle" whatever that means) could never accept as part of my thinking (Kampf als Inneres Erlebnis for example) but which I consider an essential part of the whole Juenger. Parts of "Strahlungen" (the pieces about the death of his son among many) are the exact opposite, without contradicting himself. Juenger's Werk should never be read as the Gospel, it simply isn't meant that way and it won't work (as you, Carlos, have just found out). That doesn't diminish his rank as a writer, thinker and, foremost, human being in the slightest. So, and this goes out to Bertil, it is better (to my opinion) that Juenger shouldn't feature at Weimar (he doesn't have any connections to the city that I would be aware of anyway, and as for the Republik, well...), because which Juenger, so to speak, would it be. I think that Juenger is (thankfully) still a long way from being Goetheized. So, again, I don't want to offend anyone, but don't blame Juenger for not sharing your opinions, share his, wherever you feel that he's right and don't, if you think you know better. Greetings from a siberian Berlin have nice Sundays the world over Olaf
