1 To come closer to the truth: it appears at the end of the morphology of conception. To move a little away from the truth: it appears at the end of the morphology of creation; creation differs from conception in that it is still more superstitious, mysterious; divining and deifying: «to accept something and for that reason bring it onstage»1. Conception is closer to the truth than creation; the boundary between creation and truth is more encompassing than the boundary between conception and truth.
2 «That the gods are invented says nothing against the gods»2: history, taken as most historians take it, can be ordered only through the will to power, through evolution by natural selection (Darwin), but this says nothing about what, before it and above it, appears within it.
“The question of why, despite the blindness of the will, marvelous formations arise was answered by Darwin. He was met with a counterquestion: "Then a Taj Mahal too, by any number of stones thrown at random?"
3 History is the history of the will to power; the morphology of creation is its premise.
4 There is an art of politics but no politics of art. The poet of a political party is worth little as an artist.
5 «Life too must be accepted, but as a complement and function of the possible.» This is one of the great insights of Jünger’s The Scissors.
Nietzsche proposes the same thing: «What is valuable in the human being is that it is a bridge, not an end.» «The human being as a species is fixed»; forever a bridge.
Da Vinci proposes the same thing: «A point is not part of the line.» A point has no parts. The line is the passage of the point; and points are the passage of the line.»
6 One of the advantages of acceptance is that it is not complete; it is always the acceptance of a complement and a function. Acceptance not only destines or obliges; from possibilities—which “are” our true nature—it also grants us a position from which to handle it.
This is one of the problems and one of the advantages brought by seeing our situation within the framework of Jünger’s hypothesis: existentialism leads us to think we lose something by accepting, but acceptance only lets us function better; existence is only a complement.
7 Money is fungible, general, that is, a subset of the whole. It can be exchanged for anything, but not for everything. It is totality that creates the point, and the point where totality is reflected with less interference.
References
- Ernst Jünger — La Tijera
- Ernst Jünger — La Tijera
- Ernst Jünger — Metamorfosis (gestaltwandel) de la Forma: Una prognosis para el siglo XXI
The question of why, despite the blindness of the will, marvelous formations arise was answered by Darwin. He was met with a counterquestion: "Then a Taj Mahal too, by any number of stones thrown at random?"