{"id":343,"date":"2026-03-16T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:25:21","slug":"re-the-current-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/re-the-current-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"RE the Current Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following hit my inbox this morning, brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerquotes.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The great Rudolf Steiner Quotes Site<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-344\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/somethingnew-2022-jun16.jpg?resize=525%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/somethingnew-2022-jun16.jpg?resize=1024%2C659&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/somethingnew-2022-jun16.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/somethingnew-2022-jun16.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/somethingnew-2022-jun16.jpg?resize=768%2C494&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/somethingnew-2022-jun16.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The institutions and ideas, especially the social ideas people have today, are abstract and crude; they are clumsy in the face of the complexities that are lying ahead. And because people are not able to have ideas or concepts about the true nature of things, they are sliding more and more deeply into chaos \u2014 the events of the war make this quite clear. Chaos is arising because reality has changed; reality is becoming fuller and richer than anything people are able to think of or create in their heads. And we shall have to be clear in our minds that we are faced with a choice: <strong>To go on beating each other to a pulp, shooting at one another, in the way we do now, because we do not know how to bring order into the world or, start to develop concepts and ideas to match the complexity of the situation.<\/strong>&#8221; (emphasis mine)<\/p>\n<p>Source: Rudolf Steiner \u2013 GA 177 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/rsarchive.org\/Lectures\/GA177\/English\/RSP1993\/19171007p01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fall of the Spirits of Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity\u2019s Spiritual Make-up<\/a> \u2013 Dornach, 7th October 1917<\/p>\n<p>109 years later and that could have been said today. Will we ever learn? Before it&#8217;s too late?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following hit my inbox this morning, brought to you by The great Rudolf Steiner Quotes Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethmdouglass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}