{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-04-29/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Recently a statesman said the words: Our relationship with the neighboring monarchy is the point that must become our political direction in our entire future life. - So imagine: the relationship of one country to another country is a point, and the point becomes a direction. One cannot think more unrealistically! But imagine what a configuration the entire inner life has, which is so far removed from reality as to turn out such empty phrases! But such an inner life is also just as far removed from the outer social life; it does not merge into the social life. What it dreams up does not become real. In spiritual science it is impossible to think as unrealistically as the conceptual shells that have been gradually developed in recent times. The present time is so conceited that it imagines itself to have become particularly practical. But it has only become schoolmasterly, out of touch with life. And a future age will characterize our age by the fact that, strangely enough, the world schoolmaster had a highly impressive effect on so many people: Woodrow Wilson, who is not connected to reality by a thin thread in his thinking either, but for whom all words correspond to unreality. But they are admired by those who are only a little hindered by the fact that they are at war with him. But there are many members of the Central Powers today who admire Woodrow Wilson! In the future it will be especially difficult to understand how political programs, without any relation to reality, can be found in which the crazy ideas of world treaties and peace treaties between nations and so on are laid down. If only it could have been done so easily! The abstract thinkers since the Stoics have been thinking about these things! What today emerge as Wilsonian ideas were there for those who know the subject, ever since there have been human beings. A healthy mind says, of course: because it was always there and could not be realized, it is unhealthy! Today's thinking has become alien to reality, which is why it takes no pleasure in such unreal thoughts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Man and the World","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-29","location":null,"word_count":360,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-04-29/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death as a Way of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/SOL2024/19180429p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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Das ist in der Geisteswissenschaft unmöglich, daß man so unwirklich denkt wie die Begriffshülsen, zu denen man es allmählich in der neueren Zeit gebracht hat. Die Gegenwart ist so dünkelhaft, daß sie sich denkt, ganz besonders praktisch geworden zu sein. Sie ist aber nur schulmeisterlich geworden, lebensfremd geworden. Und ein künftiges Zeitalter wird unser Zeitalter dadurch charakterisieren, daß doch merkwürdigerweise auf so viele Menschen höchst imponierend der Weltenschulmeister wirkte: Woodrow Wilson, der auch nicht mit einem dünnen Faden in seinem Denken mit der Wirklichkeit zusammenhängt, sondern bei dem alle Worte der Unwirklichkeit entsprechen. Sie werden aber bewundert von denen, die nur ein wenig gehindert werden dadurch, daß sie mit ihm im Kriege sind. Aber gerade unter den Angehörigen der Mittelmächte gibt es heute viele, de Woodrow Wilson bewundern! Das wird in der Zukunft ganz besonders schwer zu begreifen sein, wie politische Programme, ohne Beziehung zur Wirklichkeit, gefunden werden, in denen die tollen Ideen von Weltenverträgen und Friedensverträgen unter Völkern und so weiter festgelegt werden. Wenn man das hätte so leicht machen können! Die Abstraktlinge seit den Stoikern denken ja an diese Dinge! Was als Wilsonsche Ideen heute auftaucht: für den, der die Sachen weiß, war dieses da, seitdem überhaupt Menschen da sind. Ein gesundes Denken sagt sich natürlich: Weil das immer da war und nicht realisiert werden konnte, ist es ungesund! Das heutige Denken ist der Wirklichkeit fremd geworden, deshalb hat es auch seine Freude an solch unwirklichen Gedanken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":343,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/182/1918-04-29/p025"}],"english":["GA 182/1918-04-29/p025"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":343,"en_words":360,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7548,"original_word_count":7273,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death as a Way of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/SOL2024/19180429p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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