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Beneath the European Crisis
This article first appeared in New View magazine Spring 2011 As 2011 draws to a close we are being told from all sides of the corporate-controlled media that if Europe’s politicians – and by this is usually meant in particular Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Europe’s strongest economy – do not do ‘the right thing’ within the next few days before the upcoming EU Summit in Paris (8-9 Dec.), which will be the 5th on the subject of European debt since the Greek crisis broke out last year 2010 and...
read moreAxiomata and Metanoia – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century
This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 63 June-August 2012 Axiomata and Metanoia (1) – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century The Mood of the New Century Under the surface of all the turmoil of the new 21st century has been the burgeoning hype surrounding “the 2012 phenomenon”: will the world end in 2012 because of the supposed predictions of the Mayan Calendar? (2) There are conflicting moods of apocalypticism and messaianic millenarianism such as have occurred before at the turning of...
read moreThe Roots of the New World Order – the development of the Anglo-American Imperial Idea 1900 – 2008
A lecture given at a conference of the Free Anthroposophical Association, Pforzheim 13-14 Nov. 2008 © Terry Boardman In my lecture today, I would like to address three points: I would like first to review certain historical phenomena prior to the 20th century in relation to the question why was the USA founded, why did it emerge out of Great Britain ? Then I shall turn to the apparent change in relationship between the USA and the UK in the 20th century and show how Britain appeared to pass from being America’s...
read moreThe Balance of Spiritual Combat – China’s Cultural Challenge to the West in the 21st Century
© Terry Boardman This essay appeared as an article in “New View” magazine Winter 2005/6 The Crucible of the 13th Century Many have recognised the great debt owed by western natural science to the spiritual stream of what has been called Islam, but which in fact is far broader than that of just the 7th century Arab conquerors of the Middle East, since it includes the fruits of the much more sophisticated and long-developed cultures of the region – Syria, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia. To a very large degree,...
read moreThe 21st Century: American Dreams? European Imagination? Asian Contempt?
© Terry Boardman September 1997 The recent death of Diana, Princess of Wales has led many in the media to claim that ‘a quiet revolution’ has been taking place in Britain, and that Diana was a symbol of this. We now have a chance to consider Britain’s identity, they say, where we want to go as a people in the 21st century, and they reflect on how we are becoming more ‘feminine’, ‘compassionate’, ‘emotional’, letting it ‘all hang out’; how we are more...
read more“Independence Day” – Who are the Aliens at the Millennium Threshold?
© Terry Boardman This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in October 1996 The Hollywood summer blockbuster movie “Independence Day” begins with a shot of the American flag and plaque left behind by the Apollo astronauts on the surface of the Moon (“we came in peace for all mankind”). They are soon covered by the vast shadow of an alien spaceship approaching Earth. The first person to monitor the approach of the aliens is an American of East Asian origin working at the SETI...
read moreMust The Great Game Be Replayed?
©Terry Boardman Nov. 1997 This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in January 1998 When I was a small boy, two board games were very popular in our family, indeed in families throughout the country: “Monopoly” and “Risk”. In “Monopoly” one sought to buy up famous London streets, build hotels on them and charge the highest rents to the other players; the richest became the winner. In “Risk” one tried from one’s own country plus a few scattered colonies to...
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