Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Are we a New Weimar?" video.
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This is a very populist perspective, the reality is most of the soldiers in the period as well as the youth men remained moralistic, whether on the right or left. The people who supported the government were part of minorities that had been underground in Germany for a while, the situation was very like in Russia during the nineties, groups who had access to foreign capital through connections (you know which group) made bank, they then rubbed it in the face of the old culture. It should be mentioned that right after the war about 500'000 starved to death, and hunger was a continual issue. For the majority things were very hard, far harder than now, there were loads of men who couldn't find jobs and engaged politically instead. You are underselling the degeneracy, just like now it was done in mocking contempt of the old order dominated by a Christian aristocracy, but this was the case in every western nation, the 20's is when the true sexual revolution happened in the west, what made it nasty in Germany was that it was opened forced, the economic deprivation of the population was used in ways that I will just call forced, many of those involved were unwilling, or in many cases literally children. The new elite were just like ours, they hated the country, people and religion, being alien to it themselves, but unlike the current elite there was a large population of ex-soldiers wanting for weakness and they left the aristocracy within vital state institutions, who were just waiting for political circumstances with the allies to shift to indifference so they could enact the return of the monarchy.
Just like now most of the population loathed these times, but media and the like tried to normalize it, giving a wrong impression on the face of it.
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The Victorian period had very little prostitution, they just worried about it more. The Christian revival happened at the beginning of the Victorian period, before that there was more of it. It like the Japanese media worry about crime despite have a miniscule amount compared to us, while our media doesn't mention much of it at all, apart for shock stories.
The thing is that both the Victorians and Japanese care. Our elite support degeneracy, but they are also ashamed by it so keep it hidden outside of media scrutiny.
The medieval period was a long time, mostly they were insanely concerned about sexual immorality, but in the way of people being married and not related, beyond that they had different cultural standards about a lot of stuff, but they were still extremely Christian about all of it. In earlier and later parts of it mistresses were common among the elite, but also Germany and England were far more uptight than France and Italy, but generally the period cultural around it related to court life and what was fine there. In some places cities or towns had a particular culture, Dijon was not somewhere young women would ever want to visit, the nobility there were savages.
It is more than a generalisation, in many core aspects it is wrong.
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