/lit/ - Literature

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>>19820541
>The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation--that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted. Then I began to examine my favourite 'World Press', with that fact before my mind. The deeper my soundings went the lesser grew my respect for that Press which I formerly admired. Its style became still more repellent and I was forced to reject its ideas as entirely shallow and superficial. To claim that in the presentation of facts and views its attitude was impartial seemed to me to contain more falsehood than truth. The writers were--Jews.

>Thousands of details that I had scarcely noticed before seemed to me now to deserve attention. I began to grasp and understand things which I had formerly looked at in a different light.

>I saw the Liberal policy of that Press in another light. Its dignified tone in replying to the attacks of its adversaries and its dead silence in other cases now became clear to me as part of a cunning and despicable way of deceiving the readers. Its brilliant theatrical criticisms always praised the Jewish authors and its adverse, criticism was reserved exclusively for the Germans.

>I had now no more hesitation about bringing the Jewish problem to light in all its details. No. Henceforth I was determined to do so. But as I learned to track down the Jew in all the different spheres of cultural and artistic life, and in the various manifestations of this life everywhere, I suddenly came upon him in a position where I had least expected to find him. I now realized that the Jews were the leaders of Social Democracy. In face of that revelation the scales fell from my eyes. My long inner struggle was at an end.

>In my relations with my fellow workmen I was often astonished to find how easily and often they changed their opinions on the same questions, sometimes within a few days and sometimes even within the course of a few hours.
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>They were dissatisfied with their lot and cursed the fate which had hit them so hard. They hated their employers, whom they looked upon as the heartless administrators of their cruel destiny. Often they used abusive language against the public officials, whom they accused of having no sympathy with the situation of the working people. They made public protests against the cost of living and paraded through the streets in defence of their claims. At least all this could be explained on reasonable grounds. But what was impossible to understand was the boundless hatred they expressed against their own fellow citizens, how they disparaged their own nation, mocked at its greatness, reviled its history and dragged the names of its most illustrious men in the gutter. This hostility towards their own kith and kin, their own native land and home was as irrational as it was incomprehensible.

>>19763297
>This led him to Christine Fournier, a journalist who had just done a lengthy piece on the gangs in Carl von Ossietzky’s renowned left-wing journal Die Weltbühne.

> These wild boys served as the grunt troops of the grown-up underworld, robbing and pleasuring the citizenry of the demimonde. But after plying their trade in the city’s nocturnal dives, they would retreat to their forest lair, where they created their own culture in defiance of all adult authority.

>The mainstays of wild gang culture were sex and violence, often combined. To become a full-fledged member, one had to go under a “baptism.” Fistfights and knife fights would kick things off, followed by acts of sado-sexual exhibition such as timed masturbation, gang rape, and coprophagy. Newcomers were often bound, smeared with piss and shit, then tied to trees and penetrated with homemade dildos carved from tree limbs.

>Afterward, the whole gang, initiates and veterans alike, would celebrate with a drunken orgy. As for the more routine acts of sexual congress among the already inducted, these always occurred on the hallowed Stoßsofa, or “fucking couch.”

>The gangs’ distinctly gay, woodsy ethos
> flourishing of gay culture across Germany, particularly in Berlin. The relatively permissive sexual climate of the city in the twenties (even though homosexual acts were still illegal), along with its many gay and lesbian bars and clubs, drew sex tourists like writers W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood, for whom “Berlin meant boys.

>google "why do tiktok users dance"
>On TikTok, the mass grouping of people together in space is replaced by a more subtle form of togetherness through imitation and synchronised movement. These dancers are separated through time and space, but they create solidarity and positive feeling by moving together, mediated by the structure of the platform.