{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-01-15/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is the case when a person does not want to admit to himself what is actually contained in this ego, when he does not want to allow the truth to arise in his consciousness about what is contained in this ego, but instead plunges into another element and numbs himself about the truth of the ego by resting in the external world. This numbing can be sought, and it is sought. And we see — let me insert this — especially in our time the saddest examples of such a search, of such alienation and of wanting to live in what does not belong to the ego, because one does not want to admit this ego in its true form. So it may be that whole crowds are seized by such a feeling of wanting to anesthetize themselves with something other than what the ego actually says. Let us assume that the ego of a number of people has been saying for decades: “We want revenge for what has been taken from us – revenge for our own sake,” and there comes a moment when they do not want to admit what lies in the actual self, when one seeks to get beyond it, then one seeks something to numb oneself – and then one does not say, “We want revenge,” but rather, “We want to fight for the freedom and rights of nations!” This is nothing more than the search for the extreme of the one pendulum swing: the stupor. Or one sings for decades or even longer: “Rule Britannia”, “Rule Britannia”, and as the continuation, which is well known, goes – and one does not want to admit this to oneself at a certain moment: one does not say what rests in the innermost form of the self, but one finds it necessary to go out of one's being by saying: One fights for freedom and justice for the peoples!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Intuitive Insight in the Happy and Serious Hours of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-01-15","location":null,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-01-15/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150115p01.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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So kann es sein, daß ganze Menschenmassen von einem solchen Gefühl ergriffen werden, sich betäuben zu wollen mit etwas anderem, als was das Ich eigentlich sagt. Nehmen wir einmal an, das Ich einer Anzahl von Menschen hätte durch Jahrzehnte hindurch gesagt: «Revanche wollen wir haben für das, was uns genommen worden ist — Revanche unseretwillen», und es käme ein Augenblick, wo man sich nicht gestehen will, was im eigentlichen Ich ruht, wo man darüber hinauszukommen sucht, dann sucht man etwas, um sich zu betäuben — und sagt nun nicht: «Wir wollen Revanche haben», sondern dann sagt man: «Wir wollen kämpfen für Freiheit und Recht der Völker!» Das ist nichts anderes als das Suchen nach dem Extrem des einen Pendelausschlages: der Betäubung. Oder man singt durch Jahrzehnte oder noch länger: «Rule Britannia», «herrsche Britannien», und wie die Fortsetzung, die ja hinlänglich bekannt ist, lautet —, und man will sich das in einem bestimmten Augenblicke nicht eingestehen: man sagt dann nicht, was in der innerlichsten Gestalt des Ich ruht, sondern man findet es nötig, aus seinem Wesen herauszugehen, indem man sagt: Man kämpfe für Freiheit und Recht der Völker!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-01-15/p014"}],"english":["GA 64/1915-01-15/p014"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":299,"en_words":323,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9274,"original_word_count":8779,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150115p01.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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