{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 153/1914-04-14_02/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us suppose we wished to carry this over into external material life, and were to say: ‘But this is just what happens in outer life.’ Yes, my dear friends, it is exactly because this is happening, that I say that we are living towards a future when this will appear in ever greater degree. More and more articles will be produced, more and more factories will be built. No one now asks, ‘How many articles are needed?’ as was formerly the case, when the tailors in the town only made a suit when someone ordered it. The need then determined the numbers to be made; but now they are produced for the market; the various wares are piled up as much as possible. Production works entirely according to the principle upon which nature works. Nature is carried into the social order, and this will at first gain the upper hand more and more. But here we are considering the material realm. The spiritual law has no application in external life, simply because it is suited only to the spiritual world; and something very remarkable results. As we are speaking among ourselves we may say these things, but at the present day the world will not agree with us in this. Things are now produced for the market regardless of the amount required, not according to what was explained in my essay on *Theosophy and Social Life*—all that is produced is piled up in warehouses and governed by the money market, and then the producers wait to see how many are bought. This tendency will grow greater and greater until it destroys itself and when I say the following you will know the reason. One who spiritually observes social life, sees the germ of frightful social abscesses springing up everywhere. That is the great social problem confronting those who understand life; that is the frightful fact which is so depressing and which—even if we could suppress all our enthusiasm for Spiritual Science and the impulse which makes us long for it—yet makes us cry out for the remedy for this world disease that is already so far advanced and which will become ever worse and worse. That which in one field, in one sphere, must work as nature works, is seen by one who seeks to spread abroad spiritual truths to become a cancer when it enters the sphere of culture, as we have just described.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Pleasures and Sufferings in the Life Beyond","site_heading":"Karma, Spiritual Development, and the Christ-Impulse","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Die Produktion arbeitet ganz nach dem Prinzip, nach dem die Natur schafft. Die Natur wird in die soziale Ordnung hinein fortgesetzt. Das wird zunächst immer mehr überhandnehmen. Aber hier betreten wir das Feld des Materiellen. Im äußeren Leben hat das geistige Gesetz, weil es eben für die geistige Welt gilt, keine Anwendung, und es entsteht etwas sehr Merkwürdiges. Da wir unter uns sind, können wir ja solche Dinge sagen. Die Welt freilich wird uns heute darin kein Verständnis entgegenbringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/153/1914-04-14_02/p018"},{"locus":"GA 153/1914-04-14_02/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Es wird also heute für den Markt ohne Rücksicht auf den Konsum produziert, nicht im Sinne dessen, was in meinem Aufsatz «Geisteswissenschaft und soziale Frage» ausgeführt worden ist, sondern man stapelt in den Lagerhäusern und dutch die Geldmärkte alles zusammen, was produziert wird, und dann wartet man, wieviel gekauft wird. Diese Tendenz wird immer größer werden, bis sie sich — wenn ich jetzt das Folgende sagen werde, werden Sie finden, warum - in sich selber vernichten wird. Es entsteht dadurch, daß diese Art von Produktion im sozialen Leben eintritt, im sozialen Zusammenhang der Menschen auf der Erde genau dasselbe, was im Organismus entsteht, wenn so ein Karzinom entsteht. Ganz genau dasselbe, eine Krebsbildung, eine Karzinombildung, Kulturkrebs, Kulturkarzinom! So eine Krebsbildung schaut derjenige, der das soziale Leben geistig durchblickt; erschaut, wie überall furchtbare Anlagen zu sozialen Geschwürbildungen aufsprossen. Das ist die große Kultursorge, die auftritt für den, der das Dasein durchschaut. Das ist das Furchtbare, was so bedrückend wirkt, und was selbst dann, wenn man sonst allen Enthusiasmus für Geisteswissenschaft unterdrücken könnte, wenn man unterdrücken könnte das, was den Mund öffnen kann für die Geisteswissenschaft, einen dahin bringt, das Heilmittel der Welt gleichsam entgegenzuschreien für das, was so stark schon im Anzug ist und was immer stärker und stärker werden wird. 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