![]() (And I plan to share here the fruits of my reflections, whatever they might be.) Second, Juenger has already fingered for us the philosophical heart of the solution. How to move toward a solution? First, I resolve to take a closer look at this issue of time, both as a universal phenomenon of our age and as a challenge in my particular life circumstances. I often experience myself as trapped, and indeed as hemmed in on all sides-sides that can seem to close in on me. This much I know: I have a problem with how I live in time. Here we are swimming in deep waters waters, again, in which I struggle to get a breath. Just prior to the above quotation, he asserts, “ has brought about a situation where man no longer has time, where he is destitute of time, where he is hungry for time.” And, “To the extent to which lifeless time can be exploited mechanically, it begins to encroach upon man’s life time and to hem it in from all sides.” To heighten the drama, the quoted words from Juenger come in the context of his explaining the effects of mechanized technology. Somehow that sentence has always signaled for me something I crave in my life, yet something elusive and difficult to identify or put into words. He went off with a slow and steady progress, as all our peasants do, making their walking a part of the easy but continual labor of their lives. It is one of the closing lines in Hilaire Belloc’s great essay ‘The Mowing of a Field.’ There he describes a day laborer who helped him ‘mow,’ i.e., by hand with a scythe, his field: The experience is heightened by its immediate connection for me with another line that lives in my memory and haunts me. ![]() Convinced there is an insight here we have simply lost-and one that makes a great difference in life-I struggle to reckon with it. ![]() Reading them was one of those difficult moments, when with a combination of excitement and fear I get short of breath. ![]() He who has leisure thereby disposes of boundless time he lives in the fullness of time, be he active or at rest.”įriedrich Juenger, The Failure of Technology “I have time when I am not conscious of time which presses in upon me in its empty quality, as lifeless time. ![]()
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