Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:49:11 +0200
From: Rene de Bakker <rbakker-AT-bs18.bs.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: from the Juenger-list


Excerpts from Juenger's essay "Prognoses" (1993): 

Not even the world state will succeed in abolishing violence, which is a
part of creation.
War will take the form of a policing operation, on a smaller or larger
scale. Since the 
state will have a monopoly on nuclear weapons, insurrection will be
pointless, but terrorism will increase. (...)
  
The next century belongs to the Titans. The reputation of the gods will
decline still further, 
but eventually, as in the past, they will return. As far as religion is
concerned, the 21st century 
will therefore be an interim period, a break between epochs: "Dieu se retire."

[see on this: Guenter Figal's contribution in the "Companion to Heidegger's
Contributions"]

Islam might seem to be an exception, but appearances are deceptive. The
reason is not 
that Islam stands outside its time: from a Titanic point of view, it is
truly contemporary.

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As to the monopoly of nuclear/chemical weapons I'm
not so sure anymore. Bin Laden - and Saddam Hussein, if he
is in it too - knew what the US would do after the attack.
But then he or they must have more moves.

An Israelian expert, who predicted rightly in 1991 that Hussein
wouldn't use chemical weapons, now says: he will use them.
"If Saddam can't have Bagdad, then nobody will."

I hope, as always, that I'm wrong.

rene

ps Yesterday on German television: concert to honour the victims
in New York. On the program: Wagner, Tristan and Isolde:
Prelude and love-death. 

One titanic will to nothing, accompanied by the other.













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drs. René de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
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