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After decades out-of-print, THE FAILURE OF TECHNOLOGY by Friederich Georg Jünger is available to purchase in paperback on Amazon!
Relevant today, Jünger warns the West of its own impending destruction should technological growth continue unchecked.
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For the first time in decades, @BooksElessar has released THE OPEN MIND by J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER for free download.
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Ernst Jünger's brother, Friedrich Georg, is an often overlooked writer—yet his warnings about technology's homogenizing effect on society are truer now than when he lived.
I posted my favorite Jünger essay on Substack and reprinted the whole collection on Amazon. Links in reply!
I talked with @razibkhan about LOTR, Elessar Books, publishing, & more! Feel free to listen: open.substack.com/pub/razib/…
“I love my wife. My wife is dead.”
Los Alamos physicist Richard Feynman wrote this in a love letter to his late wife.
He almost couldn’t work at LA bc of his wife’s illness. But Oppenheimer made sure he could—and that she could come with him.
She died shortly before Trinity.
“50% of marriages end in divorce” is a fake statistic everyone believes. Consequently, people view the success or failure of their relationships as beyond their control.
Love letters between Vladimir Nabokov and his wife prove this wrong — open.substack.com/pub/elessa…
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I spent a whole lifetime building this. And as long as I’m in charge, nobody’s going to knock it down.
Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father of Singapore
We probably live in the most repressed time in history for human emotion and human nature
Read novels from 1800s and heartbreak for ex. is treated like an illness itself (Kitty in Anna Karenina, Cathy in Wuthering Heights)
Now just go to work, forget, but what have we lost?
MAN AGAINST THE MASSES IV:
The founding father of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, succeeded in a way very few leaders or nations can claim to succeed in our modern age: he turned the poor, swampy island of Singapore into a thriving, developed nation.
How?
Doing so, he neither fell into the trap of aping Western liberalism – the imposition of which on developing nations often causes more problems than it solves – or of the type of government that attracts unwelcome attention from the United States…
Singapore’s founding father demonstrated the great things that can be achieved by a determined man with clear and concrete aims.
Learn from him👇
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My biggest takeaway from Jünger?
Ideology is for sheep. You never find ideology among free thinkers.
Lincoln’s pre Civil War speech could have been written today — rioting, vigilante justice, Caesarism, racial tensions, frontier spirit.
Here are my top moments from Lincoln’s Lyceum Address you need to know in 2023:
Lastly, a personal favorite:
Great men (Caesars, Napoleons) will never be satisfied resting on the achievements of other men. Only when America continues to provide opportunity for renewed greatness does it survive and thrive — as it did with the likes of Washington, Franklin.
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You can read the whole speech there. Every Sunday we post a forgotten work from history or literature that ought to be known today.
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