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| - | "[[Heliogabalus]] was a remarkable example of [[Psychopathia Sexualis|psychopathia sexualis]]; but in his age there were no [[Krafft-Ebing]]s to submit his [[case report|case]] to scientific observation," says John Stuart Hay in ''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Emperor_Heliogabalus The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus]''. Heliogabalus, or [[Elagabalus]] as he is also called, is indeed a prime example in the category of [[Roman decadence]], along with other [[notorious]] emperors such as [[Tiberius]], [[Caligula]], [[Claudius]] and [[Nero]]. | + | * Someone or something which does not meet a standard of [[political correctness]] |
| - | + | * ''[[Politically Incorrect]]'', the late-night U.S. political talk show | |
| - | Keywords in the history of Roman decadence are [[inbreeding]], [[bacchanalia]], [[orgies]], [[vomitoria]], [[Great Fire of Rome]], [[gladiator]]s and [[pederasty]]. | + | * A charge leveled against people in the Soviet Union which accuses them of harboring non-Communist party beliefs and/or failing in their devotion to the state |
| - | + | * Politically Incorrect, the song by [[Homer Simpson]]'s band Sadgasm in the simpsons episode [[That '90s Show]]. | |
| - | The classic account of Roman decadence is [[Edward Gibbon]]'s ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, a book that was instantly put on the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]''. The history of Roman decadence is a necessarily a hybrid [[mix of truth and fact]], but is interesting to note that the view Europe had of [[Roman antiquity]] during the [[Renaissance]] was that of an [[highbrow]] ideal. It wasn't perhaps -- although the existence of [[Latin profanity]] was already known to Antiquity scholars - until the excavations of [[Pompeii]] and we found the [[erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum]] in the second half of the [[18th century]] that our view of the Romans started to change. This gave rise to the very first [[secret museum]], the [[Secret Museum, Naples|Secret Museum of Naples]]. | + | |
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| - | Two years ago in Amsterdam, I saw a pleasant man who served us in a bar while we were having dinner. His face struck me as [[perverse]]. How can someone have a perverse face. I the nature of your character readable on your face? Go ask the [[physiognomy|physiognomists]]. There science is long out of fashion and definetely [[politically incorrect]], but I [[concur]] without of course casting a judgment. | + | |
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| - | In his introduction, Hay further notes that: | + | |
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| - | :"The [[Roman Emperor|Emperor]] who is studied in this volume has commonly been treated as if his reign had [[no significance]], unless it were to show what deep places the [[Roman Empire]] had [[sunk]] when such a [[monster]] of [[lubricity]] could wield the [[supreme]] [[power]]. If the [[chronicle]] of his [[naughty]] life has been exploited to illustrate the legend that the [[pagan]] society of the Empire was desperately [[wicked]] and infamously [[corrupt]], he has not been taken seriously as a ruler. Yet Elagabalus appeared under too [[ominous]] a constellation to justify us in dismissing his brief attempt to govern the world as unworthy of more than a superficial description and a facile condemnation. His reign lasted less than four years; but those years fell in a period which was critical for the future of [[European civilisation]], and he was brought up in a circle intensely alive to the religious problems which were then moving the souls of men. Mr. Hay has broken new ground, and he has done history a service, in making Elagabalus the subject of a serious and systematic study." --from the introduction by [[J. B. Bury]] ([[1911]]) | + | |
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| - | [[Steve Albini]]'s documentary at YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFMU-IFUMOI Most People Don't Know His Name]. | + | |
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The phrase "politically incorrect" may refer to:
- Someone or something which does not meet a standard of political correctness
- Politically Incorrect, the late-night U.S. political talk show
- A charge leveled against people in the Soviet Union which accuses them of harboring non-Communist party beliefs and/or failing in their devotion to the state
- Politically Incorrect, the song by Homer Simpson's band Sadgasm in the simpsons episode That '90s Show.
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