The Immortality of Living Beings
The article: The Necessity of Spiritual Science
Chapter 13
No national government whatsoever can remedy the misery
A government in an individual country can easily prove its innocence and helplessness in the face of the advancing evolution of dictatorship.
It cannot help it if some of the other states do not want to open up any superfluous supplies of fuel, oil, cereals or other essential products they might have, except under terms that are difficult or insurmountable.
Such a government has therefore no other course but to order the citizens of its own country to restrict their consumption of the necessities of life to the limited quantities to which there is access through the country's own modest currency and ability to provide for itself.
That this restriction can take place only through dictatorship, rationing, goods-control and so on is a matter of course.
That enormous inroads into the personal freedom and private property of the citizens are hereby made in the form of restrictions that are glaringly against democratic policy and the protection of citizens, which have been in force during a certain period of time, is a matter of course.
It was in this period that the current colossal scientific, technical and chemical advances were made that must now stagnate because of the severe policy of nationalisation and exaggerated worship of one's native country behind gigantic barriers of growing military forces within which the national states are each isolating themselves.
That this isolation or encapsulation of the national states must become a calcification of or obstruction to international communication between the states, which has gradually become a condition of life, may well be assumed to be evident as an unshakable fact.
That this calcification cannot be cured by an even more effective policy of isolation or encapsulation of the national state in the form of an even greater worship of the native country and violent military forces can only be just as much a matter of course.
That the body of the collective international terrestrial human society will react violently against this deadly calcification within itself is only what has become an unshakable fact through the world war that began in 1914 and that can only be stopped on the day when an international, democratic legal and judicial system, equipped with the power to break down all national military isolations and deadly idolisations of each native country, arises.
Until then the nationalisations will be able only to offer their populations restrictions, deprivation of freedom or depressing encroachments in all imaginable fields.