Snapshot of the Day Part 2 Social Media Mix X – 3/4/5.3.2024 – Interdim Synthtel Report
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“You must consider the whole part played by electricity in Nature, …to the effect that human beings cannot go on developing in the same way in an atmosphere permeated on all sides by electric currents and radiations. It has an influence on the whole development of man. This is quite true; man’s inner life will become different if these things are carried as far as is now intended. It makes a difference whether you simply supply a certain district with steam-engines or electrify the railway lines. Steam works more consciously, whereas electricity has an appallingly unconscious influence; people simply do not know where certain things are coming from. Without a doubt there is a trend of evolution in the following direction. Consider how electricity is now being used above the earth as radiant and as conducted electricity, to carry the news as quickly as possible from one place to another. This life of men in the midst of electricity, notably radiant electricity, will presently affect them in such a way that they will no longer be able to understand the news which the receive so rapidly. The effect is to damp down their intelligence. Such effects are already to be seen today. Even today you can notice how people understand the things that come to them with far greater difficulty than they did a few decades ago. (Rudolf Steiner)(1924)
Manchen Völkern genügt eine Katastrophe, sie zur Besinnung zu bringen. Deutschen, so scheint es, bedarf es des Untergangs. (Arthur Müller v.d. Bruck)
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two. / Die Regierung meines Landes brüskiert ehrliche Einfachheit, aber streichelt künstlerische Schurkerei, und ich glaube, ich hätte mich in einen sehr fähigen Taschendieb entwickeln können, wenn ich ein oder zwei Jahre in der öffentlichen Verwaltung geblieben wäre. (Mark Twain)