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It struck me a number of times that the author was going off on a tangent that was only mildly relevant

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This essay is preceded by an intro and foreword almost as long as the text itself but the reader shouldnt let the works brevity deter them from reading it

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Nothing escapes jungers ken from the mass media to tanks to photographic cameras

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The future junger depicts and the present he delineates are both dark junger is something of a fatalist though he and some of his biographers would deny it and there is something inexorable in the process he describes thanks to moores law of exponential growth which means that things are even worse now than when junger saw the storm coming on the horizon

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Telos press has done a good job of printing this little booklet into a sleek slender eyecatcher if not for its cheesy zoom lens graphic on the front

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On pain is an illuminating peak into the nihilism and chaos that had leaked into conservative philosophical and literary thought as germany sank into national socialism

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In an effort to bring new relevance to on pain however durst draws weak conclusions between modern day suicide bombings and jüngers fantastical ideas about the reduction of the personality for the sake of a mechanistic lifedefying violence

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For the shahid or martyr death is welcomed in defense jihad of the muslim community and never approaches anything nearly as authoritarian as spiritually anemic as ritualistic or as empty as jüngers lionized breed of automated soldier