After a heated argument with my twelve-year-old son, he comes home with a somewhat tacky mug he found in a...
The perception of the other takes place in the tension between self-surrender and self-assertion. When two people meet, we attempt...
As comrades of fate, whether local or migrated, we have to take on the heavy legacy that the Millennial Empire has left behind after only twelve years. It is the worst legacy survivors have ever inherited, yet it must be faced. Instead of soldiers’ courage, the German now has to...
And as the time of the fifty days neared its fulfilment, they were waiting with shared devotion for the beginning...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
When I was researching educational issues at the Central Round Table in the archives of the GDR opposition this summer, I encountered a future society and a self-image in democratic practice that I had never seen before. The basic tone in the leaflets, theses, and concepts of the citizens’ movement...
Ethical AI? “[T]o understand something or someone so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend,...
Fear is a fact of life, but our relationship to it is something different. Life brings defeats – we have...
Car, motorcycle, electric bike, and on foot – these are the different methods of transport available to me for my three-kilometre trip to the Goetheanum. Four ways of moving at four different speeds, four different relationships to the environment, four forms of experience, four ways of arriving, with four different...
March 2021, Berlin-Schöneberg Maike: I found this book by Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson: Angels Fear—Towards An Epistemology Of The...
And these are not things to be ashamed of; they are deeply human. They are a kind of “human condition,”...
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