{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Yes, my dear friends, but then, to see the full meaning of this, it is, I need hardly say, necessary to get right, right away from phrases, and pierce to the realities. For anyone who is tied to phrases would naturally think; Well, but who of late has stood out as the representatives of Freedom, if not the Anglo- American world?—Why, of course, *in words*, yes, to any extent, but what matters about a thing is not how it is represented in words, but what it is in reality. We have had over and over again, as you know, occasion to refer to -the language of “Wilsonism.” Phraseology of the Wilson type has been gaining ground in Western countries for a long-time past. In October 1918, it even for a time laid hold of Central Europe. And over and over again here,—I remember there was always quite a little commotion here when, over and over again, as the years went on, one had to point out the futility of all that Woodrow Wilson's name stood for, how utterly hollow and abstract it all was, for which Woodrow Wilson's name stood. But now, you see, people even in America are apparently beginning to see through Wilsonism, and hour hollow and abstract it all is. Here, there was no question of any national feeling of hostility towards Wilson, there was no question of antagonism proceeding from Europe. It was an antagonism arising from the whole conception of our civilisation and its forces. It was a question of showing Wilsonism for what it is,—the type of all that is abstract, all that is most unreal in human thought. It is the Wilson type of thought which has had such one-sided results, because it has absorbed the American impulse without really possessing the impulse of freedom (for talking about freedom is by no means a proof that the impulse of freedom itself is really there), and because it had not the impulse for really practical Altruism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Denn derjenige, der an der Phrase haftet, der wird sich natürlich sagen: Nun, wer hat denn in den letzten Jahren die Freiheit mehr vertreten als die anglo-amerikanische Welt! — Selbstverständlich mit den Worten ungeheuer viel; aber es handelt sich darum, wie die Dinge in Wirklichkeit sind, nicht wie sie mit Worten vertreten werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-10-10/p025"},{"locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Sie wissen ja, daß hier immer wieder und wiederum hingewiesen werden mußte auf die Phraseologie des Wilsonismus. Diese Phraseologie des Wilsonismus ist in westlichen Ländern durch lange Zeit sehr verbreitet gewesen. Sie hat sogar vom Oktober 1918 an Mitteleuropa ergriffen. Da hat die Illusion nur nicht lange gedauert, aber es hat diese Phraseologie Mitteleuropa ergriffen. Hier mußte immer wieder darauf hingewiesen werden, und ich erinnere mich, wie immer eine kleine Bewegung entstand, wenn immer wieder und wieder durch die Jahre auf die Aussichtslosigkeit, auf die Leerheit und Abstraktheit dessen hingewiesen wurde, was sich an den Namen Woodrow Wilson knüpft. Aber jetzt fängt man an, wie es scheint, sogar in Amerika, diese Abstraktheit und Leerheit des Wilsonismus ein wenig zu durchschauen. Es hat sich hier nicht um eine Völkergegnerschaft gehandelt gegen Woodrow Wilson; es hat sich hier nicht gehandelt um einen Antagonismus, der aus Europa kam, es hat sich gehandelt um einen Antagonismus, welcher aus der Auffassung unserer Zivilisationskräfte hervorkam. Es hat sich darum gehandelt, den Wilsonismus zu charakterisieren als den Typus des abstrakten, des unwirklichsten menschlichen Denkens. 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