Forest Row, England. Official inauguration of the Section for Inclusive Social Development network in Great Britain.
In the fall of 2024, the Section for Inclusive Social Development was founded at the Goetheanum. About a year later, from November 14 to 16, the new section network for inclusive social and educational development in Great Britain was officially inaugurated at Emerson College during a working conference. The United Kingdom is already home to a strong culture of transdisciplinary collaboration and exchange between members of various sections of the School of Spiritual Science. A regional college meets regularly to coordinate research, professional training, and networking activities. Its work has now been officially framed, with Emerson College in southern England, as a center for research and education in line with the mission of the School of Spiritual Science as a “university of the future.”
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In view of the mis use of the word “inclusiveness” in current political and social engagement world-wide, I still have a problem with its adoption in anthroposophical circles as part of our mission, even to the extent of placing it in the name of a section.
Inclusivity implies exclusion. Why is it in the name of a section? Who are we explicitly including? Who would we otherwise perhaps exclude if we did not specifically label this endeavour “inclusive”?
Catering to modern social trends should not be part of what we do as we seek to maintain language clear and rid of propaganda and misuse and inversion of words. And there is an ongoing inversion and rendering obsolete the meaning of many of our important words like what it is to be human, woman or man, morality, democracy, hate speech, anti- this or that, etc, etc – and inclusivity itself, which nowadays means the political and purposeful pushing of all kinds or random things onto people on purpose and with disregard to reality.
I wonder if anyone else has ever found this problematic, the naming of a section at the Goetheanum as inclusive. It could be a pet peeve of mine, of course.