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>>19417779
>meteor strikes
Much better off praying to Vulcan.

"The barrage lasts days, weeks, months, and he sits and waits under the bell, consumed by himself and his thoughts, close to death, in the same hole as it. Is it only duty that can keep him here? It is the situation in which he finds himself, the compulsive and mechanical intertwining of events in his life from which he cannot escape, that holds him back. After all, desertion is not an option, nor is suicide. It is the fearless who realise the depth of this dilemma, this compulsive confusion. Those who are fearful are more frightened by the hopelessness of what is happening. One feels that nothing will change if one locks oneself up and gets lost. His fate is part of a common, all-encompassing destiny, which creates a community between friend and foe and sustains the struggle. In this situation, the soldier no longer feels like a hero. He may be brave, patient and self-sacrificing, but he feels that he is no longer a hero in the sense of the word, which suggests an unharmed man in an unharmed environment. He no longer possesses the healing powers of a hero. Even the humble ability to organise has been taken away from him. He no longer has any environment, because everything around him has fallen victim to destruction, and he himself, for all his courage and tenacity, is a broken man, in that state of brokenness which arises from no longer being able to cope with an indestructible whole. It is he who, in the end, becomes the main prey of the event and on whom all destruction is tested. It is in the bravest and most tenacious fighter that it is most deeply tested. The material struggle, for all its lack of ideas and planning, is a picture of a man ensnared by his own causal thinking, and destroyed by his own machine. The futility of these efforts, equal to poverty, is still hidden from man. The images that appear before him, that monotonously surround him in the material struggle, he cannot yet relate to his own will, the opposite of which appears here before him."

Is "Die Perfektion der Technik" instantly approachable for Georg Jünger, or is there somethign else on should have read by him before.

>>18295115
>blocks your path

"All rational thinking, if traced to its origin, goes back to a male. Hence, not only scientific thinking but also technical thinking is essentially paternalistic. With his great respect for ideas, the scientist wants to establish and to secure their paternity, and this is one more reason why he lives in a paternalistic hierarchy. In whatever field the rationality of science may be active, it is always a causal rationality. He who is not able to think rationally and causally cannot be an exact scientist. That is why women are largely excluded from science; they have no business there. The women who do penetrate the scientific work cell are like sexless toilers in a beehive. Of course, there are some scientifically minded bluestockings, as well as those who ride in on the coattails of man. But, contrary to the beehive, the worker here is the exception, not the rule.
The saying, Mulier taceat in ecclesia ("Women shall remain silent in church") applies to science also. Everything matriarchal is far removed from science and has to be kept away from it, because if female thinking were ever to gain the upper hand, it would destroy science itself; it would break the power of rational thinking. Women as a rule are not scientifically creative, neither are they inventors; our technology is not of their making.
Women are not of that gadgeteering species to which the technician belongs. Nor are they mechanics, fit servants for the machine. Technical progress, which favors the emancipation of woman in order to absorb her as a worker in its organization, not only robs her of her womanly power, it also impairs her in her deepest purpose. The sight of women employed in technical activities always has something incongruous about it. Lawrence rightly says that one leaves woman behind when one goes to the machine. And indeed, why should women be tinkering with machines? Their forte lies in quite another direction. Women pre-eminently belong to the life-giving side of existence, whereas the machines confront us with a dead world of sterile, sexless automatons."

What did he mean by this?

https://direct.warosu.org/lit/thread/S17537050

As for their philosophies of technology, I think Ernst and Friedrich Georg are fundamentally the same. FG's works are pretty difficult to come by unfortunately, and hardly anything has ever been translated into English. Ernst has The Worker, On Pain, Total Mobilization, and multiple later works. I can't think of any off-hand that are specific to technology though, as they are often mystic in style. The commentary is generally scattered throughout a number of works, for instance, his commentary on Spengler spans three or more of his books. His thinking on technology is much like this, taken up in various thoughts, as in notes or aphorisms.