Quote: (05-30-2014 08:50 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
We've entered a period in which every sort of vice and perversity is praised. In fact, people are tripping over themselves to encourage and praise everything that is base and venal in our culture. The rule book is gone, gone, gone...out the window.
Western civilization is in some sort of weird interregnum period where the old ethic--based on Christianity--is dead or rapidly dying, and a new moral code has yet to fully congeal.
We're likely to endure a couple centuries of chaos and disorder before a new civilization, with a new moral base, emerges from the ashes. This is how it has always been. I know that's scant consolation for us, but such is the sting of reality.
I suppose we shouldn't grieve too much for the collapse of our civilization. Cultures have shelf-lives, and nothing lasts for ever. We should see ourselves as something like the banqueteer who sits down at the table, eats his fill, and then--when satiated--gets up and leaves, making room for the next guest at the table.
A much more likely scenerio is a strong right-wing counter-movement forms within the next 100 years or so, probably 50 years, and the persecutions of sick perverted shit begins Hitler style.
I think guys on this board underestimate just how fast political change can occur. Wiemar republic Germany went from super decadent in the 1920's to dictatorship within a span of 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Rep....931929.29
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The 1920s saw a remarkable cultural renaissance in Germany. During the worst phase of hyperinflation in 1923, the clubs and bars were full of speculators who spent their daily profits so they would not lose the value the following day. Berlin intellectuals responded by condemning the excesses of capitalism, and demanding revolutionary changes on the cultural scenery. Influenced by the brief cultural explosion in the Soviet Union, German literature, cinema, theatre and musical works entered a phase of great creativity. Innovative street theatre brought plays to the public, and the cabaret scene and jazz band became very popular. According to the cliché, modern young women were Americanised, wearing makeup, short hair, smoking and breaking with traditional mores. The euphoria surrounding Josephine Baker in the metropolis of Berlin for instance, where she was declared an "erotic goddess" and in many ways admired and respected, kindled further "ultramodern" sensations in the minds of the German public.[20] Art and a new type of architecture taught at "Bauhaus" schools reflected the new ideas of the time, with artists such as George Grosz being fined for defaming the military and for blasphemy.
Artists in Berlin were influenced by other contemporary progressive cultural movements, such as the Impressionist and Expressionist painters in Paris, as well as the Cubists. Likewise, American progressive architects were admired. Many of the new buildings built during this era followed a straight-lined, geometrical style. Examples of the new architecture include the Bauhaus Building by Gropius, Grosses Schauspielhaus, and the Einstein Tower.[21]
It is amazing just how poorly human nature is understood. When people snap, they go from one extreme to the other. Just wait till America goes bankrupt and the bread and circuses stop. I predict a massive right-wing takeover, most likely a military coup-d'eat. Economic activity will stop and democracy will be suspended in the name of preserving peace and stability.
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