/lit/ - Literature

>>18194469
Jünger will never stop making "neo-fascists" seethe and this is a great thing.

>I continue to study people on the street, which again reinforces my impression of the Orient as a place of disenchantment. The eye has to grow accustomed to the most unpleasant sights imaginable—there is no oasis, no respite. Technology is the only thing that functions in good order: the railroad, the cars, the airplanes, loudspeakers, and naturally everything belonging to the world of weaponry. Otherwise, there is a complete absence of everything organic, of nourishment, clothing, warmth, light. This is even more pronounced for the higher aspects of life—for joy, happiness, and cheer, and for any benevolent power of art. And all this on some of the richest soil on the globe.
From his diary - Rostov, 23 November 1942

>>16441015
From "A German Officer in Occupied Paris":
>On Rue Royale, I encountered the yellow star for the first time in my life. Three young girls who were walking past arm in arm were wearing it. This badge was distributed yesterday, and those who received it had to part with a point from their clothing ration in return. I then saw the star more frequently that afternoon. I consider things like this, even in my own personal history, a significant date—I was immediately embarrassed to be in uniform.
As >>16442599 pointed out Jünger cut off all association with Hitler and the Nazis after that incident. He wrote On The Marble Cliffs (1939) as a criticism of Hitler and the Nazis; the SS wanted him dead for it and only Hitler's personal intervention saved him.
Fuck off to /pol/ you uninformed piece of shit.

Any good readings on living an aristocratic life regardless of wealth or social status? I'm thinking "spiritual aristocracy" here a la Nietzsche or Ernst Jünger, not LARPing as a duke. Jünger has a wealth of things to say on the topic obviously but I want more.

>>16346511
Thanks for the bump.

By the end of his life, what was his opinion on government and law? He was consistent in criticizing liberalism and democracy throughout his life; did he ever come close to advocating an alternative or was he purely a critic, leaving the solution to the problem open?

>>15939304
>It's called being a German of the 20th century
OP could just as easily have described Churchill or Teddy Roosevelt.
In fact any number of aristocratic, cultured individuals who served with valor in the wars of the 19th and 20th centuries could be described that way.
Don't get me wrong, Jünger is legendary. But OP, while his points are correct, could have gone further: not only a wide range of interests but an incredible literary talent alongside a record of superhuman exploits in war and fascinating adherence to Nietzschean philosophy that he refined and lived with throughout his life.

>>12545786
>>12545822
As a child without corruption you’re in no way afraid of what you are and others. Taking an example is that you don’t care for your own nudity or others because the abstract ideas and ethics of it haven’t been implemented into you but it can be corrupted into the symbol of pornography early, as anything can be. I remember sleeping and cuddling with my friends as a child and there was no false fear of possibly being homosexual like we see so much now, we were just two in being. Energy and any concrete thing can be given a symbol. I remember a recent dream where I was walking with a nude man and woman on a mountain, because of the nature of the non corruptable subconscious none of us felt any false symbol of taboo. The Greeks are so important because you’ll see that the human condition is non changing energy that can learn and so much of philosophy is coping for the non understandable.
So many teens and adults are lost but because of power and social hierarchies they put on an image that’s not. Seeing this I felt much more comfortable around others. As all non corrupted children are true I believe humans can be saved. Try to create a dual consciousness within your mono, in the way of understanding opposites. I recently realized that I have often been afraid of different human experiences that have the possibility of corruption but reading Jüngers writings on drugs and war or Battailles on the erotic changed that deliberately. I came a footstep away from suicide 4 years ago because of hyper reality and trauma before a wind blew me backwards as I leaned forward and I decided to at least try to realize why. I’m beginning to believe that the idea of nothing is even a human construct built on falsehood. Even if humanity can’t be saved, groups and individuals still can so that’s what you should try, building strong friendships and beautiful situations with others like you and yourself. Or build up situations that strike at the leviathan and show faults on it. Humans have the incredible importance of inner consciousness, but with capital and many other created abstract things we are made to see only the outside. Really what I’m trying to say is don’t hate but don’t fear strength, war, taboos or the collective you are a part of either. Accept the human condition, help yourself and others close to you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqNRklwDwc

Imagine being Jünger and realizing a book you wrote in your early 20s will be your most popular work. On top of that Nazis liked it which he definitely wasn’t a fan of. Of course you’d edit it after you’ve gotten older and had more experience with life. I don’t see why people fetishize the first version so much.
>>12396154
The Glass Bees is great