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Pat Caddell fashioned Carter's "malaise" speech, blaming the people for the funk we were in (recalling the Brecht remark: the people are against the government; the government has to change the people), and now Sidney Blumenthal.
Though the critic Adorno admonished that poetry was impossible in the wake of Auschwitz, in a different context he also argued that art was more effectively political the less overt its politics-- pace Brecht.
The plays of Berlin’s best-known playwright, Bertolt Brecht, naturally dominate the repertory of the theater he founded, the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble (Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1), although it does expand to other, mostly modern, classics, and promises to further enhance its outstanding reputation under the new artistic director, Claus Peymann.
Maybe this was what Bertolt Brecht meant when he said his life had been ruined by intelligence.
As it is the lyrics that are relevant, they were translated by Marc Blitzstein from Bertold Brecht's original.