Fun under the Occupation

A new book suggests that the mood in Paris under the Nazi occupation was far from dismal. It was one big orgy.

Sounds likely to me. The Nazis were no sexual prudes. They opened government-run bordellos for the working class.

Generally speaking, totalitarian governments are all for the common human vices. It keeps people's minds off politics, and it implicitly endorses the government's own lack of ethics. Give them lots of vodka, lots of sex, lots of circuses. Host an Olympics; build fun parks.

Sexual freedom is in practice more or less the opposite of political freedom.