Writes The Journal of Lingering Sanity1 min ago
Well quite the conundrum. “You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable.
What times are these when we Tweet and live? Unthinkable that older era. Even podcasts fail in the moment to convey the message live and direct through the skull and all the senes that this “human” era, epoch, brief interlude in the sun like a May Fly is Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man CRUCIFIED by MAMMON and you - you- you- Das Man-just go to work day in day out like a damn automaton.
A domain where our titanic nature reveals itself is modern science. In place of the “great concepts” that stood at the beginning of science.
Here again we find the traces of the ancient myths, for while Prometheus’ gift of fire allowed humanity to create civilization, it also gave us the means of waging war with one another, thus hastening the decline from the golden age to the present age of iron. In this sense, Jünger suggests that our era of “increasingly perfect technology” may be likened to the myth of Saturn, for just as Saturn devoured his own children, modern civilization devours its own security through its dependence on the very technology that unmoors its foundations.
Why, Jünger asks, does the “craving for security” that pervades the modern consciousness grow in step with technological progress? According to Friedrich-Georg Jünger, modern man’s veneration of technology reveals his distant kinship to the Titans of myth. This ‘titanic’ impulse to dominate and consume expresses itself through our technology-driven industrial economy, which now determines every aspect of life from the air we breathe to the food we eat. The answer must be that technology’s advocates have become cognizant of the inherent dangers of the forces they have set in motion. In Jünger’s words, “Modern man wakes up to the fact that the elemental forces he has enslaved in his machinery are turning against him with ever growing, viciously destructive force.”
From goodreads: "Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living—from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion—"Generation of Vipers" ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise. Wylie's classic, written with devastating wit and a pen as sharp as a barber's razor, wages war on all forms of American hypocrisy. Remarkably, or perhaps not so, what Philip Wylie has to say rings as true today as when he first wrote Vipers, and no doubt it will continue to offend and outrage both the Left and Right. Harsh, bitter, and filled with venom toward those who have corrupted the America that 'could have been,' "Generation of Vipers" will be read with pleasure and indignation a century from now...(2042 only around the corner eh.)
“Modern man wakes up to the fact that the elemental forces he has enslaved in his machinery are turning against him with ever growing, viciously destructive force.”
And it is said that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and so it will be with our Dear Mother, as she rears her aching, rufied head to deal with the contagion known as fallen man, or so I expect.
I will be pleasantly surfing the zuvuya, meanwhile. Hanging ten.
This is very concerning, the daughter should legally have no say, but she has the hospital's soldiers and generals to egg her on.
They have removed your wife's access to your strength at a time of great vulnerability.
Edit: oops I went back in *history* and have commented on the wrong post.