Last time I said, everything always remains the same. It is of course clear that this does not concern the content, because in terms of content there are of course continuously very large differences, but the way in which the content comes into being is always the same. And then it actually makes no difference at all who performs certain actions or initiates deeds.<\/p>\n
The source from which that arises is always the same. And of course there are differences in the sense that people have different characters and different temperaments, and therefore there is apparently indeed difference. But at the moment we are running into a trap, you could say, that is not seen at all.<\/p>\n
When you as a human being, little human, are born on earth, then you are certainly not an unwritten sheet, as that is seen from ordinary science; that sheet is indeed written upon by a distant past, but of course you come into a completely new world and you have to live into it, work yourself into it, and for that you must of course gradually become accustomed to that world in which you are then born. And that takes quite a while, you are occupied for a very long time with exercising your senses, later with exercising your memory, with taking in all kinds of knowledge, and then when you perhaps go to university, you use all the acquired concepts and ways of thinking to take in what science has to offer you, and it seems as if life could go on like that the whole time. And that is actually comparable with the situation in which we as humanity find ourselves; it seems as if the development of humanity has always been as it is, and can also always continue as it is, and then of course at a certain point you can say, well yes, we have technology, and with that we can deliver a fine example of progress, and then everything will become different, but of course it does not become different at all, because what that technology has to offer is also based on the fact that everything always remains the same.<\/p>\n
If you as a human being have therefore developed yourself, let us say up to about your twenty-eighth year, then a time begins in which, I think, you all gradually begin to experience that you come to a kind of boundary, only attention is not drawn to that, nobody tells you that it is so, and nobody explains to you what exactly is actually happening, but something happens, and when you are then some years further in your life, then you should actually notice that in thinking, especially where you have your consciousness, you continuously go on combining all the concepts, all the opinions, all the judgments that you have acquired, and that you lack the power to truly think in a renewing way within yourself. You should actually notice that, and according to me you also do notice it, only again, you are not pointed to it, so you can indeed notice it, but you nevertheless live past it. That is what is now also happening in the great development of humanity.<\/p>\n
We have a tremendous history of development of sciences and culture, and that too comes to a point where renewal is no longer possible. One can indeed make new discoveries, one can make tremendous progress, for example in specialized medicine, but if you look carefully, you see that it all nevertheless rests on putting together in another way the concepts that already exist and the observations that already exist. I do not know whether it becomes clear what I am saying.<\/p>\n
A boundary comes to what can be brought about with that historically tremendously developed thinking. Well then, we still have technology, and that can take it over from us, but the interesting thing is that in technical development, in the development of artificial intelligence, you also see that that boundary is reached. I found it extraordinarily interesting, and also in a certain sense satisfying, to read that with chat-GPT the data at a certain moment are all inside it, and that therefore actually nothing new can be added anymore, except when certain copyright boundaries are broken, but in fact there comes a moment when such a system carries within it everything that can be found on the internet, and the one who wrote that article, I unfortunately forgot who that was, pointed out that when it then continues further, so when you go beyond the set limits of the data with chat-GPT, that it then begins to talk nonsense.<\/p>\n
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Well, we all know that, I think, when you use that system, that you can go up to a certain boundary; if you go further, if you come into an area of which it has no data, then it will continue to answer, but then it becomes nonsensical. So also in technology that boundary exists. At a certain point, even if you have ever so much data, you cannot go further with combining them and knowing them in a certain perfection.<\/p>\n
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And when that has been reached, then there is only one road left and that is that it becomes decadent. Then it no longer goes upward, but it goes downward. In my opinion we also see that in classical music.<\/p>\n
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At least I have experienced it that way, that at a certain moment in the nineteenth century a kind of boundary comes to what music can still bring in terms of renewal, and that then actually someone would have to come who composes from another source of inspiration, whereby then a turning point in that music would come. Well, in the twentieth century we of course experienced a great deal of another kind of classical music. I still remember that in my younger years I experienced that music as traffic jams played by an orchestra.<\/p>\n
That of course does not apply to all music, but I did suffer from it very much. And at a certain moment, as a child on Sundays I always heard Wagner music in the background, because that was some kind of opera morning on the radio or something, and I did not like it at all. I found it so dramatic and actually unpleasant, but yes, it was of course also background.<\/p>\n
And later, when I came to know anthroposophy, I read in Rudolf Steiner that he actually says something quite different about it. And when at a certain moment in Amsterdam a performance of Wagner\u2019s Parsifal took place, we nevertheless went there. And I still remember that I was sitting there in that row and the orchestra began to play, and I thought, yes, this is renewal of music.<\/p>\n
And of course it is not entirely that either, but what an unbelievable effect on your life forces. There you feel for a moment what could happen if such a turning point were to continue in the development of humanity. It has not continued.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I listen wrongly, perhaps I do not have the sources correctly, but I do not believe it. With Wagner something can be heard, and Rudolf Steiner says with Bruckner and with Mahler that is also the case; there something can be heard that did not occur in the time before. On that of course the criticism was based that these composers received, because they did something, yes, that actually did not occur.<\/p>\n
I find that an example for what should take place in our capacity for thinking. We must find a way to train our thinking capacity in such a way that it renews itself. We will have the same concepts, but the way in which we will handle them will then be renewed.<\/p>\n
And then here and there decadence stops. When we see the situation in the Middle East, then on the one hand you can say, well, that is of course not always the same, because it is quite unique what happens there, at least how it happens. But at the same time you see of course that it is indeed decadence that causes such a war to arise and also to continue.<\/p>\n
That should no longer happen in the development of humanity. And yes, I continue to plead for it that people see that a change in the world is not otherwise possible than that the renewing force is sought in thinking. And you do not have to invent the wheel, because that has already been invented.<\/p>\n
You find that in the literature that is abundantly present by Rudolf Steiner; in that, and also in my own books, you find enough indications regarding how one could develop thinking in such a way that a renewal becomes possible. That new life comes into it and then from that new life in thinking an entirely different view of human being and world arises.<\/p>\n
That will do for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last time I said, everything always remains the same. It is of course clear that this does not concern the content, because in terms of content there are of course continuously very large differences, but the way in which the content comes into being is always the same. And then it actually makes no difference at all who performs certain actions or initiates deeds.<\/p>\n
The source from which that arises is always the same. And of course there are differences in the sense that people have different characters and different temperaments, and therefore there is apparently indeed difference. But at the moment we are running into a trap, you could say, that is not seen at all.<\/p>\n
De bron waaruit dat voortkomt is toch altijd hetzelfde. En natuurlijk zijn er verschillen in de zin van dat mensen verschillende karakters hebben en verschillende temperamenten, en daardoor is er schijnbaar wel verschil. Maar we lopen op het ogenblik in een val, zou je kunnen zeggen, die helemaal niet gezien wordt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ongecategoriseerd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}