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"Weimar girls
What can we do?
What can we do?
Weimar girls
Tell me the truth
Are we all doomed?
Even in my moderate world
You'll always be my Weimar girls
So hold me as we watch it all repeat"
This song makes me reflect on our current status in the World, earthly, that is. Earthly, as in politically and not spiritually has been chaotic. I believe, that either the U.S. will collapse or will turn into something akin to what the Weimar Republic had turned into.
To understand this song, we'll need some historical context.
"Across the countryside, the girls are reading Marx
Discussing modern theories on philosophy and art
They spend their worthless currency on pleasures after dark
Hits of morphine in the cabaret, can't blame them it's been hard"
Marxism was particularly really popular to study and read in Weimar Germany, the earlier German Empire had been collapsing under the weight of democratic-socialist nations and soldiers turning to socialism. Marxism had gotten mostly popular through the Russian Revolution, as Leninist-Marxist Communists rebelled against the former monarchy.
Along with it, art and philosophy had been revolutionized in France and Germany after World War 1. Interwar Germany had seen a tapestry of beautiful arts, or ugly arts. Expressionism, Avant-garde, Dadaism, and Surrealism had gotten particularly popular around this period of time.
The Mark, the currency of Weimar Germany had been rendered useless by 1923 as the Treaty of Versailles had rendered most of their industry useless.
Drugs had also seen an uprising in Weimar Germany, along with the art revolution.
"Living between the endless wars, under a parliament of whores
Beside the rubble of the churches and schools that stood before
Is it so wrong, all that they want is to feel seen
They're putting on their makeup like thе girls in glamour magazines"
They lived in the Interwar period, a period in Europe between World War 1 and World War 2. It was notorious for being an unstable time in Europe, due to how bad the Ottomans fell in the Balkans, how the treaty had formulated small nations bound to collapse or to be capitulated.
The Weimar Government was notorious for not stepping into any political issues that threatened their democracy. Along with that, they were also corrupt.
Schools, and Churches had been destroyed in the war, philosophically, at least. After the end of World War 1, a growth in Nihilism had became prevalent. Soldiers could not explain what happened in those trenches, so they resorted to losing hope in God, or in humanity.
A line about seeking attention through the arts, or fashion, which was popular in Weimar Germany.
"Pretty girls in pretty drеsses
Great wars and great depressions
Postwar pleasure, lovely Weimar girls"
"Weimar girls like to stay out late
They put out on the second date
They're not naïve, they just want play
Because they may only have today"
The Weimar Girls engage in sexual 'liberation' as everyone else is. Rather then just going out on a second date because they're ambitious, they are rather just doing it for pleasure and want to live their lives to the fullest as this may be their last day, as hyperinflation and violence grew in Weimar Germany.
"They watch the Mark hyperinflate
Watch as the empire incubates
An ideology of hate
Coming in totalitarian state"
And, as they watch the day pass on, and are worried for their last days... They watch their currency go down the toilet, and watch the Nazi Party take power in Germany.
"Weimar girls
What can we do?
What can we do?
Weimar girls
Tell me the truth
Are we all doomed?"
Cyborg seems to cut off our reflection on the Weimar Girls, and force us back into the present. He asks the Weimar Girls, on what we, as a generation can do.
Even in my moderate world
You'll always be my Weimar girls
So hold me as we watch it all repeat
We are then brought back to the past, having the Weimar Girls watch World War 2, and the Holocaust.
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