/lit/ - Literature

>>14727118
You mean the "War has its own laws" part?

"Today we even recognize the secret law of this vocabulary and know that the most terrible war is pursued only in the name of peace, the most terrible oppression only in the name of freedom, the most terrible inhumanity only in the name of humanity.

Finally, we also see through the mood of that generation which saw only spiritual death or a soulless mechanism in the age of technicity. We recognize the pluralism of spiritual life and know that the central domain of spiritual existence cannot be a neutral domain and that it is wrong to solve a political problem with the antithesis of organic and mechanistic, life and death.

A life which has only death as its antithesis is no longer life but powerlessness and helplessness. Whoever knows no other enemy than death and recognizes in his enemy nothing more than an empty mechanism is nearer to death than life.

The comfortable antithesis of the organic and the mechanistic is itself something crudely mechanistic. A grouping which sees on the one side only spirit and life and on the other only death and mechanism signifies nothing more than a renunciation of the struggle and amounts to nothing more than a romantic lament.

For life struggles not with death, spirit not with spiritlessness; spirit struggles with spirit, life with life, and out of the power of an integral understanding of this arises the order of human things.

Ab integro nascitur ordo."

In one of these threads someone had asked me to post this video and I forgot to respond.
https://youtu.be/h1ZWSddojIk

>>14160946
>the unknown soldier

>>14160667
Simplicius as the object of study for those beyond the perimeter of war. The beauty of enduring as the ruins tear into forests is little more than an instrument of study within the temples of reclusive authorities, where a theology of man may only endure as a medicalised etiquette. War is the Christian fool returned to a cave state. Peace an eternal sterilisation before the necessity of amputation. The beard of the heathen grows as his science of crypsis takes on a natural appearance, his patched coat draped like some shadow of an animal. This is war, and all but man and the primordial gods flee from it.

>>13458655
Not true. Even many of the Brits and French are recorded as saying it was the best time of their lives.
Part of the reason for the anti-war books being dominant is that they fit a particular liberal narrative. And rather than discussing the legal and political ramifications of the conflict it is convenient to simply unload these through individual horrors. They are essentially a form of sacrifice, knowing that war is in opposition to liberal values but at the same time necessary for upholding its very legal and ideological foundation. The extent of the absolution must equal the violence of the war, hence the almost absurd nature of some of the anti-war works.
As well, one should not confuse the writings of a soldier attempting to work through trauma as an overall condemnation of warfare. Perhaps it is simply paying tribute to the dead. This would also be an element contributing to the anti-war mentality, because at the time people at home refused to believe what they heard about the front, even calling their own sons delusional. This is unnatural and creates a void between the citizenry and its military, to which an increase of tension will rise. No doubt much of the anti-war culture exists within this conflict.
>>13460889
They certainly do, it's the subject of almost all Junger threads. And the people doing this certainly aren't doing him any favors by reducing the writing to such banality.

>>13379027
>>13379027
I'm trying to write an effortpost, but I'm also drinking and listening to music, so I'll write the tl:dr first just to see what happens.
>Why?
Because we are not coins.
>Why?
Because the god of dice is not the only existing god, and even though the most minor gods rule over us today he remains near the bottom of the hierarchy.
>Again, why?
Because this society is based on a lie. And the being of economy cannot exist alongside the being of war. One must be subsumed, devoured by the other's processes, and the fact that modern economy approaches the aesthetics and being of war can do nothing but prove the sovereignty of war over economy. Material warfare mobilised all of society to war tactics, operations, and rationality. And it is no mistake that capital died within the Great Wars. Planned obsolescence is the self-sacrifice of material to the reanimation of the dead nation-state, the blitzkrieg of the final surviving beings to the defense in depth of the Leviathan.
>You come off...
I fully grasp economy, this is why I understand that it is a minor process. Economic determinism is nothing more than a misstep in human thought, turning abstraction into its own biology. The greatest economic determinists approached escape, a theological interpretation or reaction to economic domination which could only be resolved through a complete return to being. And the current state of society, where it exists as nothing more than money-changing and false sacrifices to Hermes (or perhaps some unknown economic god), reveals itself most clearly in the loyal opposition of revolutionaries to their masters. Economic thinking is a trap, you are captured into an animalistic rationality, and so the opponents more and more appear as lunatics. This is proven by the racket of organisation which forces opponents of capital to unleash a runaway of politics against any opponent of capital who appears too far.
The desperate schismogenesis of the modernists who cannot see their own fascistic tendencies. A refusal of hierarchies ensures that they cannot even see that law and technology reigns over the modern period - so they could never peer beyond the economic shadow to realise how all difference in the modern spirit disappears within the necessity of law and technology. This is why the marxists hold onto a lost era and become conservatives, they have necessitated a spiritual war against their own being. Germany in Autumn, the fiery mourning within a bureaucratic terrorism, reveals the revolutionary spirit which refuses the burial rites of its own. Antigone is granted her demands, but still commits suicide.

In short, those who commit the most to a doctrine of economic war are the fiercest traitors and informants. The post-leftist appears as the depleted uranium of Schmitt's theory of international law.

Choose your path to continue (or quit game now).
https://youtu.be/LZ07ixA2Jjw
https://youtu.be/Om0QydWrTao

>>13256862
>>13257004
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/threshholdofoblivion