The world state is itself existential, theological. There is a world unity and opposition to which all order is aligned, whether in ttack or defense. The world war is a civil war, and the cold war a cold civil war. It is not only limited due to nuclear weapons, and the catastrophic weakness of nations after the World Wars, it is a new type of war – delimited, irregular focused on all elements of subversion. It is the type of war which neutralizes the revolutionary wars, but also mobilizes them. Indeed, the democratic states prefigured their wars, and the partisan is the natural figure of the movement of the new nations – or rather spaces.

War is not weakened, the anti-war position is spatial in its attempt to eliminate the criminal type, the unhuman form which is always a threat to democracy. War becomes so pervasive that a simple vote on the world stage can hold an impossibly destructive power. Every veto of the Soviet Union was equal to the battles of the World Wars. And the race to include the most insignificant nations, to give them a vote in the world state was an attempt by America to unravel this legal weapon of the Soviet Union. The world became multipolar, but only as an intensification, and rearmament of the world duality.

Peace, then, is catastrophic, apocalyptic in its answer to the new conflict. It is the shearing of pain, that fear of the deathless and unnamed – so great that in eternal repetition all of them could never be found. There are two types of Unknown Soldier: he who disappeared with the Fatherland, and he who becomes like a wandering spirit in the Motherland because of the inescapable new form of combat.

Where war becomes eternal, peace can only meet it in kind. This is the reason for the apocalyptic language in Jünger's text. One is reconciling with the death of all lands, and the entire weight of history coming to a final brutal conflict.

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I led my men in battle, destroyed many enemy, and fell in the company of Titans.
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One of the great poets of World War I. And one of the few epic poets of the 20th century.

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Mars, surrounded by the Arts and Sciences, conquers Ignorance
Antoon Claeissens, 1605

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"With the catastrophes we see figures emerging, which prove themselves equal to the cataclysms and which will outlive them when the incidental names have been long forgotten. Among these figures is, first and foremost, that of the Worker, marching confidently and unswervingly toward its goals. The fires of downfall only serve to throw it into an ever brighter light. For the moment it still radiates an ambiguous titanic glow; we cannot yet guess the royal capitals, the cosmic metropolises in which it will erect its thrones. The world wears its uniform and its armor, and at some point it will also don its festival attire. Since it is only at the start of its career, comparisons with any previously accomplished states would be improper.

In its train other figures surface, including those in which the suffering is sublimated. One of these is the Unknown Soldier, the Nameless, who for just this reason lives not only in every capital but also in every village, in every family. The battlefields, the temporal goals, and even the peoples he has represented sink into the realm of the uncertain. As the conflagrations cool, something else remains, a shared something, and now it is no longer will and passion but art and worship that turn to it.

Why is it that this second figure is so clearly connected in our memory with the First but not the Second World War? This comes from the clear delineations that emerged from that point forward of the forms and goals of the global civil war. The soldierly aspect fell therewith into second rank. Yet the Unknown Soldier remains a hero, a conqueror of fiery worlds, who shoulders great burdens in the midst of the mechanical devastation. In this sense he is also a true descendant of western chivalry.

The Second World War is distinguished from the First not only because the national questions mix openly with and subordinate themselves to those of civil war, but also due to the escalated mechanical development, which approaches extreme limits of automatism. This brings with it intensified assaults on nomos and ethos. In this connection, utterly hopeless encirclements result from overwhelming superior forces. The material battle escalates into one of encirclement and annihilation, into a Cannae without the ancient grandeur. The suffering increases in a manner that must necessarily exclude any heroic element."

~ Ernst Jünger

In this short 10 minute video, I will make clear how a generation of failed artists can only produce a generation of lost souls stuck in a spiritual purgatory. As long as a pile of bricks on the floor is considered art, and as long as our movies are more often than not cash grabbing reboots, then it will remain such that art will fail to guide us to higher ideals as it once did perhaps because it was we who have failed art.

What we need is, now more than ever, art that speaks to the transcendent and the eternal, as it had done for countless centuries. It is time to once again create the very art that can in fact, not only get us through life but guide us all the way, if not beyond.

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This video raises some powerful questions.

Was the Renaissance really a great resurgence of art, or did its classicism merely remove ancient art from its context and thus strip it of its true value? What do we really get from filling our eyes with the innumerable simulacra of traditional paintings, sculptures, and architecture that pervade these online spaces? Does this not in reality separate art from Life, turning it into vain entertainment and a mere commodity; would we not honor art far more by instead seeking and creating new art that really expresses ourselves and lives among us, where it will actually serve its highest purpose?