Worrying Parallels Between the Weimar Republic and Modern Western Society

[harbl_the_cat]

http://www.ukapologetics.net/weimar.html

I found this article and while I don't agree with many of the assertions made or the conclusions the author comes to, I think a poignant point that we often overlook when we look back to the Weimar Republic's hyperinflation is the social conditions that contributed to the eventual collapse of German society.

It's interesting that the article was written in 2006 before the GFC - but when you consider the parallels in North American society especially, it seems the degree of public debauchery and hedonism that has emerged has gotten worse (more than I remember it 10 years ago).













Don't get me wrong, promiscuity, violence, drunkenness were around when I was 18 too, but it seems what would have once been considered pornographic or excessively graphic is now common.

Are we in the Western world living through the early 20's and the downward spiral of physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual degeneration?

I keep getting the feeling we are.

[Skybird]

Hitler was not right-wing. He was a Socialist. A liberal of his day. He brought bigger government and big social changes to Germany. It was initially welcomed by the people. He brought change slowly until the German people were stuck with it. This is happening in the US today.

[KYnyts]

The corruption in government bothers me. The erosion of civil liberties bothers me. The trampling on the Constitution bothers me. Creativity, self-expression (even of a sexual nature) does not bother me at all.