{"id":46186,"date":"2023-03-24T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=46186"},"modified":"2023-03-24T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:43:41","slug":"an-anchor-for-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/an-anchor-for-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anchor for this Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u00abWhat&#8217;s new?\u00bb Frederick the Great asked his court astronomer, who, according to tradition, replied: \u00abDo you already know the old, Your Majesty?\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/BACK_nandhu-kumar-5NGTf4oD8RA-unsplash_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1365x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44435\" width=\"341\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/BACK_nandhu-kumar-5NGTf4oD8RA-unsplash_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1365x1024.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/BACK_nandhu-kumar-5NGTf4oD8RA-unsplash_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/BACK_nandhu-kumar-5NGTf4oD8RA-unsplash_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/BACK_nandhu-kumar-5NGTf4oD8RA-unsplash_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/BACK_nandhu-kumar-5NGTf4oD8RA-unsplash_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><figcaption>A woman harvesting rice in Nedumangad, Photo: Nandhu Kumar, Unsplash.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A farmer or a gardener would probably have answered: \u00abIt&#8217;s the old!\u00bb Where technology and culture hope for the unknown and the foreign in the new, earth workers trust that the old will return anew \u2013 the stalks break through the ground just like last year, and the buds open just like last year. Agriculture is the great counterforce to the rush forward towards the promise of salvation, to the belief that solutions lie in the future, that in tomorrow I leave today behind me. With the sun religions Christianity and Buddhism, with civilization and technology, we have left time as a wheel or cycle behind us and put the timeline in its place. To put it simply: Wouldn\u2019t it be best to make progress on a timeline with a wheel? Life is rhythm! Therefore, a life-affirming technological culture needs a sense of cyclical time right down to the muscles and bones, and that is what agriculture, the work in one&#8217;s own garden, provides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Monika Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abWhat&#8217;s new?\u00bb Frederick the Great asked his court astronomer, who, according to tradition, replied: \u00abDo you already know the old, Your Majesty?\u00bb A farmer or a gardener would probably have answered: \u00abIt&#8217;s the old!\u00bb Where technology and culture hope for the unknown and the foreign in the new, earth workers trust that the old will return anew \u2013 the stalks break through the ground just like last year, and the buds open just like last year. Agriculture is the great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":44435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8810],"tags":[11295,8819],"class_list":["post-46186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-agriculture","tag-2023-5-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}