Ernst Jung said "On pain" "A clash of naval ships is distinguished by its unprecedented clarity. We can recall in our minds the course of naval battles right down to the minute and individual shells fired. Moreover, one sees neither the sailor. as he is invisible in a way more significant that purely physical, nor a mass of soldiers, instead one sees the naval ship or fleet. We have before us one of those cases where men accepts his downfall or fate. His ultimate concern is to no longer to try to avoid his fate, but to ensure it takes place with a flag held high. In survivors accounts, one repeatedly comes across a remarkable attitude that leads one to believe that in the decisive moments death is simply not seen. This is specially true wherever in the zone of annihilation man's focus remains squarely on utilizing weaponry. Only he who feels secure in immediate proximity to death finds himself in the highest state of security. "

I chose this passage because it describes many aspects of nihilism and the class is about that, I also like the last line in which it is said that the moment we feel more secure is when we are close to death itself and I think this is true the only things we have for sure since we are born is that we are going to die and that s it.

 Politics as vocation  by Max Weber

What do we understand by politics? The concept is extremely broad and comprises any kind of

independent

leadership in action. One speaks of the currency policy of the banks, of the discounting policy of the

Reichsbank, of the strike policy of a trade union; one may speak of the educational policy of a municipality

or a township, of the policy of the president of a voluntary association, and, finally, even of the policy of a

prudent wife who seeks to guide her husband. Tonight, our reflections are, of course, not based upon such a

broad concept. We wish to understand by politics only the leadership, or the influencing of the leadership,

of a

political

association, hence today, of a

state.

 

I chose this text which was in the introduction of his essay because it says how politics can be represented in any sphere of society, either family, schools, work, government and how the focus needs to be made more specifically on government since there is no kind of leadership being made and everything is so communal. This is interesting because this is one of the reasons Hitler was elected because he represented an unified kind of leadership.