{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These things must be seen as symptoms of our time, for they are characteristic of a general trend. Yet such things are usually ignored or not taken seriously because their true significance is not recognized. They may even be laughed at and the present miseries are not seen to be related to them. Far from attempting to bring order into the chaos through spiritual insight, man is allowing his contact with the spiritual world to deteriorate. As a consequence he also loses contact with the reality of the external world because without spiritual insight he can reach only its outer shell. In saying this I am pointing to a significant phenomenon of our time: catastrophes occur because thoughts, which ought to relate to external events, do not. As a result the external events take over and go their own way independent of man. They do this even when man has created the events himself. Then the thoughts of man, which may be excellent, often have no effect, they can find no foothold in the external events. It has gradually come about that the individual may have fine ideas but they have a life of their own while external reality also has a life of its own. A dreadful discrepancy exists between what takes place in many heads and what goes on all around them, a disharmony of such proportions as has never before occurred.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":234,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170731p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Man muß sie als Symptom nehmen, denn sie drücken doch den Charakter unserer Zeit sehr gut aus. Man hat so die Gewohnheit, über diese Dinge nur die Nase zu rümpfen oder sonst über sie hinwegzusehen, höchstens über sie zu lachen, weil man ihre ganze Tiefe nicht durchschaut; nicht durchschaut, daß das Elend unserer Zeit mit diesen Dingen zusammenhängt, und nicht durchschauen will, wie wenig in unserer Zeit die Menschen die Neigung haben, durch eine Verbindung mit der geistigen Welt die Ordnung in dieser Welt zu fördern. Sie lassen gewissermaßen die Verbindung mit der geistigen Welt ersterben, dadurch aber verlieren sie auch die Verbindung mit der Außenwelt, denn sie können dann auch nur die Schale der äußeren Welt betrachten. Daher kommt es auch, daß in unserer Zeit - und ich mache damit auf eine bedeutsame Erscheinung aufmerksam — etwas so Schlimmes zutage tritt da, wo sich die menschlichen Gedanken, wenn sie da sind, verbinden sollen mit der äußeren Wirklichkeit. Das hat zur Folge, daß die äußere Wirklichkeit ihren Gang geht, auch insofern die Menschen die äußere Wirklichkeit machen, und die Gedanken der Menschen ganz schön sein können — mancher Menschen natürlich —, aber die Außenwelt, insofern Menschen darin handeln, ist so geartet, daß sie Gedanken gar nicht annehmen will, nicht zugänglich ist für Gedanken. So sehen wir, daß es allmählich dazu gekommen ist, daß einzelne Menschen schöne Gedanken haben können, aber daß diese schönen Gedanken ein eigenes Leben für sich führen, und die äußere Wirklichkeit auch ein eigenes Leben für sich führt. Eine furchtbare Diskrepanz besteht zwischen dem, was in den Köpfen mancher Menschen heute vorgeht, und in dem, was in der um sie herum liegenden Wirklichkeit vorgeht, eine Disharmonie, die so groß ist, wie sie in keiner verflossenen Zeit war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p021"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p027"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":301,"en_words":234,"ratio":0.78,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6890,"original_word_count":7508,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170731p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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