{"id":5473,"date":"2019-10-24T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:50:30","slug":"from-the-goetheanum-justus-wittich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/from-the-goetheanum-justus-wittich\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE GOETHEANUM – Justus Wittich"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Dear Members,<\/div>\n
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\u201cHistory has been written, the future has not\u201d, is how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, presently the youngest Democratic representative in the US Congress, argues for a transformation of society. The Friday for Future student movement expresses the same sentiments in more concise and radical terms: \u201cUnf**k My Future!\u201d<\/div>\n
We read much about the increasingly polarized world, the consequences of a rampant materialism on civilization, but at the same time also about the awakening of young people to the effects this has on nature, about taking responsibility individually for the future and the birth of a new solidarity across continents.<\/div>\n
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Positive antidote<\/div>\n
What kind of positive antidote is there? \u201cLet your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine\u201d, Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1849 in his essay on Civil Disobedience, a statement that still applies today when it comes to corporations, conformity and the societal attitude of \u201ccontinuing as before\u201d. The history of the Anthroposophical Society has been \u201cwritten\u201d, one could say, since Rudolf Steiner\u2019s death in 1925. It is what we are building on \u2013 against all odds. But the future is open and depends on our present actions both as individuals and as a society that is forming itself in freedom. Across the world, people are working daily on creating such a \u201ccounter- friction\u201d, out of their inner connection with anthroposophy and within their particular social context. To say it with Wilhelm-Ernst Barkhoff, founder of the gls Bank, \u201cWe can only overcome our fear of a future we dread with images of a future we want.\u201d<\/div>\n
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What kind of attitude is it that lets people become active, inspired by anthroposophy and against all odds? Is it a quality of the \u201cMichaelic attitude\u201d that works in harmony with the spirit of our time? How can we as the Anthroposophical Society create a fruitful source of strength for the many active supporters of these impulses?<\/div>\n
Warm greetings,<\/div>\n
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Justus Wittich, Goetheanum<\/div>\n
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