The red-light districts of Weimar Berlin WERE a nexus of meaning and community, and the Nazis tore it all up and burned it all down because it was the WRONG KIND of meaning and community
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Of course the world sucks and people are unhappy What I am deeply suspicious of is arguments that everyone is less happy than they would've been in the Good Old Days, and gosh if we want people to be happy we should import some of those Good Old Days values into modern times
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Especially because the Nazis' totalizing ideology reacts to people saying "Well maybe you want to live on a charming little farm in a rural small town and go to church every Sunday and have a loving housewife and five kids, but I'm happier now" with "Then you must be destroyed"
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They say "All real people are miserable and alienated under these neoliberal conditions", and when someone's counterargument is just "Actually things are a lot better for me now than they used to be", the response is "Then you're not a real person"
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