Degeneracy and the opposite, a viable culture...
France has Nana, Bel-Ami, Carmen, Emmanuelle... George Sand, Colette, Françoise Sagan, Anaïs Nin... a literature of women, the glorification of the demi-monde, the courtesan, the mistress -- in plain English, the prostitute...
In comparison we have Germany with Wagner at the fore... with Brynhilde, Isolde, Senta... quite different gestalts of womanhood...
In the Wagner opus we also have Tannhäuser, who leaves the domain of Venus in order to shape up and become a man, a plot element which was incomprehensible to the French audience... leave the goddess of love, mais c’est imbecile ça... but he must leave... “I don’t strive for happiness, I strive for my work”... as Zarathustra said...
This is German, this is core Faustian, this is the future... and France is degeneracy, it’s the past... Napoleon was the last French power to reckon with, from then on it’s Germany who rules the roost.
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