File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9807, message 142


From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: Need no little Kaisers no more
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:53:55 -0500




>>In Caesar's world, Caesar valued quite
>>highly his roads, bridges, siege engines and aqueducts and those who
created
>>them. Fact. What priest every designed a Trident submarine, cruise missle
or
>>M1-A1 tank?
>
>This guy is incredibly thick and proud of it- though he can't even
>write.  He acknowledges that the servile place of the engineer is
>determined by that of the despot.  But *credibly* as it might seem, he
>misses three critical realizations: first, that the modern
>technobureaucrat, the modern engineer, does not need no Caesars no more
>- and follows instead the flows in another body, that of Kapital, sacred
>corporate cow; secondly, he misses how the Asiatic State unmistakably
>shows that all the hydraulic works of engineering were the work of
>priestly imperial bureaucracies (from Mexico to China), if not the
>technical validation for their separation from civil society; and
>finally, he misses the fact that war technologies were invented first by
>nomads and not by priest-engineers or technobureaucrats.
>
>LC


Stick another fork in me, I'm really done now. Not sure which is more
absurd, Fritz's genetic mutation of cruise missles or LambdaC's concept that
they were created by nomads. I think they're both pulling our legs.

John T. Duryea



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