Divine decadence empowers fascists

[Robert Urbanek]

The winner of eight academy awards, the 1972 musical Cabaret examined the social corruption that accompanied the Nazi rise to power.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) celebrates "divine decadence" with songs like "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Cabaret" while the impish emcee (Joel Grey) mocks the Nazis. Offstage, the promiscuous Bowles seduces gay Brian Roberts (Michael York) and both have intimate encounters with a rich playboy (Helmut Griem).

The sexual exploits come to an end as the playboy abandons both of them and Bowles aborts her baby with Roberts to pursue her singing career and carefree lifestyle.

The conventional liberal interpretation of Cabaret is that Bowles and her coterie of performers and lovers are creative free spirits who are bravely standing up against the brutish fascists. However, another interpretation is that the Kit Kat Club and its denizens represented all the filth, corruption and anarchy that plagued the Weimar Republic. The Germans gave power to Hitler to “restore morality.”

The true lesson of Cabaret, that decadence provokes fascism, has been lost on Hollywood because the cultural revolution that began in the mid-1960s seems unending as performers and producers “push the envelope” to bring new levels of depravity to the media. The pushback may bring fascism to America.

 

[kyzr]

Are you winging it or do you have a link to backup your theory??

 

[Robert Urbanek]

Are you winging it or do you have a link to backup your theory??

“Every kind of sexual perversion was catered to and hotels like the Excelsior and the Adlon hired ‘in house’ male and female prostitutes to entertain the guests. As things grew increasingly dire Berlin threw itself into an orgy of dancing, drinking, and pornography and prostitution with je m’en fous being the order of the day.”

For most Berliners, the city itself “was a living hell.” It was these issues that “ultimately made Hitler’s rise to power possible.”

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/01/29/degenerate-art-before-and-after-nazi-germany-in-berlin/

 

[B. Kidd]

The winner of eight academy awards, the 1972 musical Cabaret examined the social corruption that accompanied the Nazi rise to power.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) celebrates "divine decadence" with songs like "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Cabaret" while the impish emcee (Joel Grey) mocks the Nazis. Offstage, the promiscuous Bowles seduces gay Brian Roberts (Michael York) and both have intimate encounters with a rich playboy (Helmut Griem).

The sexual exploits come to an end as the playboy abandons both of them and Bowles aborts her baby with Roberts to pursue her singing career and carefree lifestyle.

The conventional liberal interpretation of Cabaret is that Bowles and her coterie of performers and lovers are creative free spirits who are bravely standing up against the brutish fascists. However, another interpretation is that the Kit Kat Club and its denizens represented all the filth, corruption and anarchy that plagued the Weimar Republic. The Germans gave power to Hitler to “restore morality.”

The true lesson of Cabaret, that decadence provokes fascism, has been lost on Hollywood because the cultural revolution that began in the mid-1960s seems unending as performers and producers “push the envelope” to bring new levels of depravity to the media. The pushback may bring fascism to America.

And Hollywood is controlled by unhinged leftists.
Interesting perspective.

 

[JGalt]

The winner of eight academy awards, the 1972 musical Cabaret examined the social corruption that accompanied the Nazi rise to power.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) celebrates "divine decadence" with songs like "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Cabaret" while the impish emcee (Joel Grey) mocks the Nazis. Offstage, the promiscuous Bowles seduces gay Brian Roberts (Michael York) and both have intimate encounters with a rich playboy (Helmut Griem).

The sexual exploits come to an end as the playboy abandons both of them and Bowles aborts her baby with Roberts to pursue her singing career and carefree lifestyle.

The conventional liberal interpretation of Cabaret is that Bowles and her coterie of performers and lovers are creative free spirits who are bravely standing up against the brutish fascists. However, another interpretation is that the Kit Kat Club and its denizens represented all the filth, corruption and anarchy that plagued the Weimar Republic. The Germans gave power to Hitler to “restore morality.”

The true lesson of Cabaret, that decadence provokes fascism, has been lost on Hollywood because the cultural revolution that began in the mid-1960s seems unending as performers and producers “push the envelope” to bring new levels of depravity to the media. The pushback may bring fascism to America.

When we get our asses kicked from trying to colonize Canada and Mexico, and people are walking around pushing wheelbarrows of worthless money, then I'll believe fascism is coming to town.

Until then, the only fascists we have are the Democrats.

 

[B. Kidd]

The winner of eight academy awards, the 1972 musical Cabaret examined the social corruption that accompanied the Nazi rise to power.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) celebrates "divine decadence" with songs like "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Cabaret" while the impish emcee (Joel Grey) mocks the Nazis. Offstage, the promiscuous Bowles seduces gay Brian Roberts (Michael York) and both have intimate encounters with a rich playboy (Helmut Griem).

The sexual exploits come to an end as the playboy abandons both of them and Bowles aborts her baby with Roberts to pursue her singing career and carefree lifestyle.

The conventional liberal interpretation of Cabaret is that Bowles and her coterie of performers and lovers are creative free spirits who are bravely standing up against the brutish fascists. However, another interpretation is that the Kit Kat Club and its denizens represented all the filth, corruption and anarchy that plagued the Weimar Republic. The Germans gave power to Hitler to “restore morality.”

The true lesson of Cabaret, that decadence provokes fascism, has been lost on Hollywood because the cultural revolution that began in the mid-1960s seems unending as performers and producers “push the envelope” to bring new levels of depravity to the media. The pushback may bring fascism to America.

When we get our asses kicked from trying to colonize Canada and Mexico, and people are walking around pushing wheelbarrows of worthless money, then I'll believe fascism is coming to town.

Until then, the only fascists we have are the Democrats.

Jerry 'The Hut' Nadler is one of the biggest ones, only second to Schiff.
'The Hut' believes that there should be no such event as a partisan impeachment, but lo and behold, he is instrumental in leading one!
How fascist tribal can one become? Just ask 'The Hut'.

 

[kyzr]

So is it a "chicken or egg" question as to do pervs like Epstein collect followers by satisfying their perversions, or does unlimited success lead to hedonism and perversion since the have-nots will do anything for money? Look at Weinstein's casting couch for example. Your link leads to a lot of perverse happenings, but doesn't say why? This sentence seems to support your contention that the Germans gave Hitler power to "restore morality".
"Many of these films were labeled “decadent” as soon as Hitler rose to power, and many of the Jewish producers fled Germany."

Is "what sells" the attraction that begets more perverse art "that sells" and makes lots of money? Amoral entrepreneurs make amoral art to make lots of money.
The root cause of the decadence is making lots of money, like any XXX movie houses do in any city.
So who are the censors that keep our towns and cities from becoming Sodoms and Gommorahs?

 

[georgephillip]

The winner of eight academy awards, the 1972 musical Cabaret examined the social corruption that accompanied the Nazi rise to power.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) celebrates "divine decadence" with songs like "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Cabaret" while the impish emcee (Joel Grey) mocks the Nazis. Offstage, the promiscuous Bowles seduces gay Brian Roberts (Michael York) and both have intimate encounters with a rich playboy (Helmut Griem).

The sexual exploits come to an end as the playboy abandons both of them and Bowles aborts her baby with Roberts to pursue her singing career and carefree lifestyle.

The conventional liberal interpretation of Cabaret is that Bowles and her coterie of performers and lovers are creative free spirits who are bravely standing up against the brutish fascists. However, another interpretation is that the Kit Kat Club and its denizens represented all the filth, corruption and anarchy that plagued the Weimar Republic. The Germans gave power to Hitler to “restore morality.”

The true lesson of Cabaret, that decadence provokes fascism, has been lost on Hollywood because the cultural revolution that began in the mid-1960s seems unending as performers and producers “push the envelope” to bring new levels of depravity to the media. The pushback may bring fascism to America.

Maybe the self-absorption of the very rich (not to mention the criminality that often produces their wealth) also contributes to the decadence that breeds a fascist response?

The United States of America Is Decadent and Depraved

"Perhaps in a democracy the distinctive feature of decadence is not debauchery but terminal self-absorption — the loss of the capacity for collective action, the belief in common purpose, even the acceptance of a common form of reasoning.

"We listen to necromancers who prophesy great things while they lead us into disaster. We sneer at the idea of a 'public' and hold our fellow citizens in contempt. We think anyone who doesn’t pursue self-interest is a fool."

 

[Questioner]

The winner of eight academy awards, the 1972 musical Cabaret examined the social corruption that accompanied the Nazi rise to power.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) celebrates "divine decadence" with songs like "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Cabaret" while the impish emcee (Joel Grey) mocks the Nazis. Offstage, the promiscuous Bowles seduces gay Brian Roberts (Michael York) and both have intimate encounters with a rich playboy (Helmut Griem).

The sexual exploits come to an end as the playboy abandons both of them and Bowles aborts her baby with Roberts to pursue her singing career and carefree lifestyle.

The conventional liberal interpretation of Cabaret is that Bowles and her coterie of performers and lovers are creative free spirits who are bravely standing up against the brutish fascists. However, another interpretation is that the Kit Kat Club and its denizens represented all the filth, corruption and anarchy that plagued the Weimar Republic. The Germans gave power to Hitler to “restore morality.”

The true lesson of Cabaret, that decadence provokes fascism, has been lost on Hollywood because the cultural revolution that began in the mid-1960s seems unending as performers and producers “push the envelope” to bring new levels of depravity to the media. The pushback may bring fascism to America.

I don't know what to say on that.

"Fascism" may not be the answer, however regardless - the fact that people have stooped as low as it gets, such as the LGBT movement accepting NAMBLA as a member as recent as the 1990s are likely an inspiration for it.

I think advocating molesting children as a "civil right" is something that both fascists and well-adjusted normal people could agree on.

People who have no morals, likewise have no rights, so fascism might naturally follow. The point of a moral anarchy and cesspool for some, isn't to roll around in the mud, but is rather to dominate and control those degenerates by force and fear, and no one would lose any sleep over groups such as NAMBLA being killed by Nazis - hell, if Nazis only targeted NAMBLA members and other freaks like that, people might hail them as folk heros.

 

[Terri4Trump]

The winner of eight academy awards, the 1972 musical Cabaret examined the social corruption that accompanied the Nazi rise to power.

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, American singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) celebrates "divine decadence" with songs like "Mein Herr," "Money, Money" and "Cabaret" while the impish emcee (Joel Grey) mocks the Nazis. Offstage, the promiscuous Bowles seduces gay Brian Roberts (Michael York) and both have intimate encounters with a rich playboy (Helmut Griem).

The sexual exploits come to an end as the playboy abandons both of them and Bowles aborts her baby with Roberts to pursue her singing career and carefree lifestyle.

The conventional liberal interpretation of Cabaret is that Bowles and her coterie of performers and lovers are creative free spirits who are bravely standing up against the brutish fascists. However, another interpretation is that the Kit Kat Club and its denizens represented all the filth, corruption and anarchy that plagued the Weimar Republic. The Germans gave power to Hitler to “restore morality.”

The true lesson of Cabaret, that decadence provokes fascism, has been lost on Hollywood because the cultural revolution that began in the mid-1960s seems unending as performers and producers “push the envelope” to bring new levels of depravity to the media. The pushback may bring fascism to America.

The Democrats are todays fascists