{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-12/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"On the other hand, something else is also working. A perpetual struggle and opposition to falling asleep in social relationships is also present. If you meet a person you are continuously standing in a conflict situation in the following way: Because you meet him, the tendency to sleep always develops in you so that you may experience your relationship to him in sleep. But, at the same time, there is aroused in you the counter-force to keep yourself awake. This always happens in the meeting between people—a tendency to fall asleep, a tendency to keep awake. In this situation a tendency to keep awake has an anti-social character, the assertion of one's individuality, of one's personality, in opposition to the social structure of society. Simply because we are human beings, our soul-life swings to and fro between the social and the antisocial. And that which lives in us as these two forces, which may be observed between people communicating, can from an occult perspective be seen to govern our life. When we meet social arrangements and structures in society, even if these arrangements seem far-fetched from the seemingly wise consciousness of the present, they are still a manifestation of this pendulum between social and anti-social forces. The national economist may reflect upon what credit, capital and interest are. Yet even these things which make for regularity in social transactions are only outward swings of the pendulum between social and anti-social forces. The person who seeks to find healing remedies for these times must intelligently and scientifically connect with these facts. For how is it that social demands arise in our time? Well, we live in the age of the Spiritual or Consciousness Soul in which man must become independent. But on what does this depend? It depends on people's ability during our Fifth Post-Atlantean Period to become self-assertive, to not allow themselves to be put to sleep. It is the anti-social forces which require development in this time, for consciousness to be present. It would not be possible for mankind in the present to accomplish its task if just these anti-social forces did not become ever more powerful; they are indeed the pillars on which personal independence rests. At present, humanity has no idea how much more powerful anti-social impulses must become, right on until the 30th century. 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Tendenz, sich wachzuhalten, ist aber antisozial in diesem Fall, Behauptung der eigenen Individualität, der eigenen Persönlichkeit gegenüber der sozialen Struktur in der Gesellschaft. Einfach indem wir Mensch unter Menschen sind, pendelt unser inneres Seelenleben zwischen Sozialem und Antisozialem hin und her. Und dasjenige, was so als diese zwei Triebe in uns lebt, was zu beobachten ist zwischen Mensch und Mensch, wenn man Mensch und Mensch einander gegenüberstehen sieht und sie okkult beobachtet, das beherrscht unser Leben. Wenn wir Einrichtungen treffen - und entfernen sich diese Einrichtungen noch so sehr für das heutige sehr gescheite Bewußtsein von der Wirklichkeit -, sie sind doch ein Ausdruck dieses Pendelverhältnisses zwischen sozialen und antisozialen Trieben. Die Nationalökonomen mögen darüber nachdenken, was Kredit ist, Kapital ist, Rente ist und so weiter; diese Dinge, die im sozialen Verkehr Gesetzmäßigkeit ausmachen, sind nur Ausschläge des Pendels dieser beiden Triebe, des sozialen und des antisozialen Triebes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-12/p010"},{"locus":"GA 186/1918-12-12/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Sehen Sie, an diese Dinge müßte heute derjenige verständig anknüpfen, real wissenschaftlich anknüpfen, der daran denkt, die Heilmittel in dieser Zeit zu finden. Denn woher kommt es denn, daß in unserer Zeit die soziale Forderung sich erhebt? Nun, wir leben im Zeitalter der Bewußtseinsseele, wo der Mensch auf sich selbst sich stellen muß. Worauf ist er da angewiesen? Er ist darauf angewiesen, _ um seine Aufgabe, seine Mission in unserem fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum zu erreichen, sich zu behaupten, sich nicht einschläfern zu lassen. Er ist gerade für seine Stellung in der Zeit angewiesen, die antisozialen Triebe zu entwickeln. Und es würde nicht die Aufgabe unseres Zeitraums vom Menschen erreicht werden können, wenn nicht gerade die antisozialen Triebe, durch die der Mensch sich auf die Spitze seiner eigenen Persönlichkeit stellt, immer mächtigere und mächtigere werden. Die Menschheit hat heute noch gar keine Ahnung davon, wie mächtig immerwährend bis ins dritte Jahrtausend hinein die antisozialen Triebe sich entwickeln müssen. 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