{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-14/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In these matters countless prejudices are dominating our life today: and prejudices are disastrous above all in this sphere of life. I am well aware how many there may be, even among you, who will regard it as a strange expectation, that you should spend your time in going into all these things. But we cannot possibly study the fullness of life if we are unable to think about these things. For if we cannot do so, we become the victims of all manner of absurd suggestions. How many an illustration the last four years have provided; what have they not brought forth? One could witness the most extraordinary things: I will only give you one example. Returning again and again to Germany—and in other places it was no different—every time, one found there was some new watchword, some new piece of instruction for the true patriot. Thus, the last time we went back to Germany, once more there was a new patriotic slogan: Do not pay in cash! Deal in checks as much as possible! i.e., do not let money circulate, but use checks. People were told that this was especially patriotic, for, as they thought, this was necessary in order to help win the war. No one saw through this most obvious piece of nonsense. But it was not merely said, it was propagated with a vengeance, and the most unbelievable people acted up to it—people of whom you might have supposed that they would understand the rudiments of economics—directors of factories and industrial undertakings. They too declared: pay in check and not in ready money, that is patriotic!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-14","location":null,"word_count":271,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p040","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181214p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Ich will Ihnen als Beispiel nur eines sagen. Wenn man immer wieder hinauskam nach Deutschland - und anderswo war es ja nicht anders -, da erlebte man: Alle Augenblicke war etwas Neues, was neue Anleitung zum Patriotismus war. Gerade als wir das letztemal nach Deutschland zurückkamen, da war zum Beispiel wieder so ein neues patriotisches Schlagwort für den bargeldlosen Verkehr aufgekommen: Man sollte nicht mehr mit Bargeld bezahlen, sondern den Scheckverkehr fördern, also möglichst nicht Geld zirkulieren lassen, sondern Schecks. Da wurde den Leuten gesagt, das sei besonders patriotisch, bargeldlosen Verkehr zu fördern, denn das sei notwendig, wie man meinte, um den Krieg zu gewinnen. Niemand ist darauf gekommen, daß es der platte Unsinn ist, wenn man es so sagt. Aber es wurde ja nicht bloß gesagt, es wurde auch wirklich propagiert, und die Leute richteten sich danach, die unglaublichsten Leute richteten sich danach — Leute, von denen man annehmen müßte, weil sie Werke leiteten, weil sie Industrieunternehmungen leiteten, sie verständen irgend etwas von der Volkswirtschaft! Sie behaupteten: Bargeldloser Verkehr, das ist patriotisch! - Nur unter einer Voraussetzung wäre der bargeldlose Verkehr patriotisch: Wenn man jedes Mal ausrechnen würde, wieviel Zeit man erspart durch den bargeldlosen Verkehr; was ja nur gewisse Leute können, die meisten können das ja nicht. Diese Zeit müßten sie zusammenaddieren und dann müßten sie hergehen und müßten sagen: Ja, ich habe durch den bargeldlosen Verkehr so und so viel Zeit erspart, bitte, verwenden Sie mich nun zu dem und dem, ich will dafür die und die Arbeit leisten. Nur dann wäre es eine wirkliche Ersparnis. Das haben aber die Leute nicht getan, auch gar nicht daran gedacht, daß es nur unter dieser Voraussetzung volkswirtschaftlich patriotische Bedeutung haben könnte. Und solches Zeug ist ja in den letzten viereinhalb Jahren, weil alles in Umschwung kam, in der fürchterlichsten Weise geredet worden. Die unglaublichsten Dilettantismen sind realisiert worden. Unmöglichkeiten sind Wirklichkeiten geworden, weil die Leute, auch diejenigen, die es angeordnet haben, gar nicht wissen, welche Zusammenhänge auf diesem Gebiete in der Wirklichkeit vorhanden sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":448,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-14/p029"}],"english":["GA 186/1918-12-14/p040","GA 186/1918-12-14/p041"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":448,"en_words":453,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9153,"original_word_count":8380,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181214p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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