#hubert lanzinger

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The illusion of encirclement will also disappear there with, and another solution will always become visible beyond the automatic one. Two paths will then be possible — or, in other words, free choice will have been restored. Even assuming the worst possible scenario of total ruin, a difference would remain like that between night and day.The one path climbs to higher realms, to self-sacrifice, or to the fate of those who fall with weapon in hand; the other sinks into the abysses of slave pens and slaughterhouses, where primitive beings are wed in a murderous union with technology. There are no longer destinies there — there are only numbers. To have a destiny, or to be classified as a number — this decision is forced upon all of us today, and each of us must face it alone. The individual today is as sovereign as an individual in any other period of history, perhaps even stronger, because as collective powers gain ground, so the individual is separated from the old established associations and must stand for himself alone. He becomes Leviathan’s antagonist, indeed his conqueror and his tamer.

Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage, 1951.

Illustration: Hubert Lanzinger. View of Klausen (Chiusa) and Säben in autumn, 1931.

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Hubert Lanzinger