Rudolf Steiner: "The destructiveness lies...firstly in everything we can call Americanism, which increasingly tends to invoke fear of the spirit and make the world into a place where only physical life can unfold. This is actually quite different from the British tendency to try to make the world into a trading company. Americanism seeks to make the world into a physical habitation furnished as comfortably as possible, where one can live in comfort and prosperity. That is the political element of Americanism. Whoever does not detect it is blind to the facts and merely shuts his eyes and ears. Man's connection with the spiritual is bound to die out under such an influence. In these forces of Americanism lies what must actually bring the Earth to its end, destruction dooming it at last to death, because the spirit will be shut out from it."
"Don't bother me with the facts: my faith is evangelical racism" |
Rudolf Steiner: "The evangelical church gradually withdrew back on to faith because with intellectualism, as it developed in the world, it didn't agree, so it increasingly withdrew from knowledge by depending on belief."
Rudolf Steiner: "Philistinism has the peculiar characteristic that it fails to grasp its perniciousness."
from Ezra Pound's "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly":
There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization
Continued: https://martyrion.blogspot.com/2020/06/rough-and-rowdy-ways-glockwork-orange.html?
Source: October 10, 1919. GA 191
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