Assignment Due 5/2: Choose a passage from Jünger, write it out, explain the meaning of it, and why you chose this passage.

Passage: As a rule one will not have to go far to uncover the pain. Indeed, even the individual is not fully free from pain in this joyful state of security. The artificial check on the elementary forces might be able to prevent violent clashes and to ward off shadows, but it cannot stop the dispersed light with which pain permeates life. The vessel, sealed off from pain’s full flow, is filled drop by drop. Boredom is nothing other than the dissolution of pain in time (p. 13).

      In terms of the meaning, I think Jünger refers to the fact that people did not have to do anything in order to be victims of the situation. In other words, the situation was painful and terrible for the entire population in general without exceptions. He went even deeper when he mentioned that even in a secure society, the pain was palpable. Similarly, society was feeling pain and suffering more every second. At the end, think that it does not matter how secure or not society, political party or idealism can be, if there is any kind of pain involving humans being, it is not worth it.

            I chose that passage because even today, idealism or political decisions go over humans' pain. For example, if a country has to declare a war to another country, the last thing to take into consideration is the people.