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Ernst Jünger - Glass Bees

>Bees are not just workers in a honey factory. Ignoring their self sufficiency for a moment, their work - far beyond its tangible utility - plays an important part in the cosmic plan. As messengers of love, their duty is to pollinate, to fertilize the flowers. But Zapparoni's glass collectives, as far as I could see, ruthlessly sucked out the flowers and ravished them...Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of ways. Whoever realizes this will bet cleaner work one way or another. Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection toward the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stand an uncanny but fascinating hall of brilliance - evoke both fear and a titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe.

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Please, enlighten us