Richard, vielleicht hast du von "undercurrents" (Unterströmungen?) in An der Zeitmauer gelesen? Ich lese es gerade. Da ist auch viel von Astrologie drin. Wie heißt deiner Astrologer? Ein Astrologer, der Jünger so schätzt, muss ein seriöser sein!
Wahrscheinlich kann ich eine seiner Bücher auch hier in Wien finden. Simon ________________________________ Von: Richard Krähenbühl <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 3. Dezember 2008, 23:27:55 Uhr Betreff: Re: [juenger_org] Jünger´s predictions ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Friedrich To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:43 AM Subject: [juenger_org] Jünger´s predictions Dear List, Again and again when I read Jünger, I am surprized by his amazing gifts of anticipating future world developments, be they sociological, political, technological, even spiritual. I´ve never encountered any other author of the 20th century who has as much insight into the future as him - and especially one who did not claim to be a prophet of any kind. As he said somewhere, he aimed to provide a roadmap rather than directions how to get somewhere specific. In the hopes of stimulating a little conversation on this list, here are some of his insights which come to my mind and which have come true. This is by no means a comprehensive list or an ordered one (trivial with monumental), but rather a stimulus - I would be curious what else list members could come up with. Perhaps later we can also speculate on what other developments he predicted which have not yet emerged, and whether or not we think they will - this is where it could get really spannend, particularly in consideration of all that has come true. An der Marmorklippen (On the Marble Cliffs): Hitler, concentration camps, regression to pseudo-paganism, cultural barbarism, elite resistance to it, etc Gläserne Bienen (Glass Bees): nanotechnology in general; the internet's basic structure (routers, massive data storage and exploitation of it); technologically- assisted surveillance and invasions of privacy; intellectual property conflicts in collaborative technology projects; media/techology titans; computer viruses; mimicry of natural mechanisms by technology; systematic secret domestication of man to the state of a beast of burden; free work campuses of IT companies like Microsoft; divisive effect of technology; disappointment of the greatest hopes of technology; Heliopolis: cell phones with internet and GPS functions Eumeswil: the WWW and its information archiving, retrieval, and synthesizing capabilities; the prestige attached to models of cell phones; "fellah-like" world-view of average citizens; interspecific genetic manipulations, cloning An der Zeitmauer (At the wall of time): electromagnetic smog, new aura of the earth; return of interest in mythology; globalization and equalization of populations; simplification/ refinement of technological means; nerve impulse-activated and voice activated apparatuses (prothesis for example). Well, that's just a quick list. What else can we come up with? Any discussion of what is listed above What can I add? Your list is pretty comprehensive. But what comes to my mind is a statement of "Undercurrents", unnoticed but so strong and powerful that nothing may resist them. Don't remember where I read this statement of Ernst Jünger, but it was made in some political context. Helpless politicians trying to mend things. Confronted with the actual happenings dubbed "the financial crisis" his words about those Undercurrents constantly come to my mind. In a recent post I was wondering why in those five volumes of Jüngers complete works in the local library "Eumeswil" was not included, for instance. Well, the only answer I got here were some priced offers for that book. Well, now I know I can buy it. So I was asking myself: Had Jünger lived today - would he partake in the Email world? Would he even have a blog? I have my doubts. Finally I just would like to tell you how I came to know Ernst Jünger at all. It was through an Astrologer! He's from Munich and has the lectures on his "Rhythmenlehre" printed in a few volumes. Each volume is opened by a adorning citation from Ernst Jünger where he speaks of Astrology as "A Diagnosis of Time". A great astrologer, in my view. In his books he often refers to Jünger, and also to his brother, Carl Friedrich. He had the delight to attend to a lecture about 50 years ago. It must have been a great event.... Yours Rich ________________________________ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter We are a community of 5.7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 574 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message
