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| Ernst Jünger: our prophet of anarchy - the dissident thinker predicted our disordered times |
| 2022-01-25 |
| EXCERPT: [UnHerd] For Junger, prayer is powerful magic, an efficacious antidote to modernity: "It possesses a conductive power." Without prayer, "our freedom of will and powers of resistance diminish; the appeal of demonic powers becomes more compelling, and its imperatives more terrible." Junger’s reference to demonic power is here entirely literal. As the years pass, he begins to view Hitler — who he codenames "Kniébolo"— not as a malicious charlatan who has perverted his conservative revolution but as a genuinely demonic figure, possessing a "a certain diabolical greatness" that is "elemental, infernal" and who "feeds" on the forces unleashed by modernity in a way the "liberal intelligentsia" are incapable of understanding. "In their innermost inclinations," Junger observes, "minds like Kniébolo’s are bent on the most comprehensive homicide possible. They seem to belong to a world of corpses that they want to populate — they find the stench of the slain pleasant." At the height of the war, while the Holocaust was a marginal concern of the Allies, Junger would return again and again to "these atrocities perpetrated against the Jews, which enrage the cosmos against us". The Nazi leadership are "demonic powers" channeling occult forces: "these people are probing the planet, and the fact that they choose the Jews as their primary victims cannot be a coincidence," he writes, "Their highest-ranking executioners have a kind of uncanny clairvoyance that is not the product of intelligence but of demonic inspiration. At every crossroads, they will find the direction that leads to greater destruction." Of Hitler, Junger writes that "I sometimes have the impression that the world spirit has chosen him in a subtle way. There are secrets here that other tribes will never comprehend." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Excellent article. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2022-01-25 15:08 |
| #2 Well, the last election showed 81 million Americans don't think. So why bother with this? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-25 13:04 |
| #1 Jung wrote that our job when maturing intellectually and psychologically is to acknowledge and integrate the good aspects of archetypal energies that we at first reject automatically. He noted that those who have some awareness of those archetypes but who do *not* do the hard work of integration are a danger to themselves and others. That's Jünger in a nutshell. |
| Posted by: Alistaire Clunk8424 2022-01-25 13:00 |