Bruderhof wrote:
> Bruderhof wrote:
>
>> Bruderhof wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone with eyes in his head can see that in Europe nothing could be
>>> more sensible than efforts for peace. Whoever would speak word
>>> against peace today is making a mistake. True, there is still a
>>> certain political atmosphere winch has been cooked up, as it were.
>>> For centuries now a kind of lust for war has been working itself
>>> into the flesh and blood of Europeans and other peoples. This
>>> war-lust reigns within some sectors of the population; but stable
>>> people know nothing of it. Nevertheless, they let themselves too
>>> easily become enthused about it, because in the back of their minds
>>> still sleeps the idea, “There must be wars.”
>>>
>>
>> To this very day, in the political world there are certain questions
>> for which we can find no solution except the sword. But it is
>> scandalous to think that there should be no other solution than
>> knocking one another around to see who is the more fortunate (one
>> hardly can say “more powerful,” because there are thousands of
>> instances in which the more powerful have gone under)...
>>
>
> Whoever can think of it, should think once of how shriveled we are in
> a political sense. This great, round earth with its peoples, what an
> unconfined playground it could be for a genuine humanity, and how
> small we have made it in dividing up ourselves as tigers and lambs,
> fox and geese—with, naturally, the fox gobbling down the geese. On
> this earth, things go according to particular rules of animal life,
> and the life of the Spirit is not to be found.
>
Of course, thought cannot go too far in this direction before we come
upon a word that is very much forbidden today. Yet there is something to
be said for it. I will state it right out: “Anarchy!” Regarding the
inhabitants of earth, a certain freedom, a veritable rulelessness, would
almost be better than this nailed-up-tight business that as much as turns
individual peoples into herds of animals closed to every great thought...
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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