Cicero (and Der Lutheraner) on: Theater and Comedy (or "shame and vice")

      Following a previous quote on this subject, I discovered another pithy quote from Cicero that the Der Lutheraner editor inserted as a brief blurb, from vol. 30 (Feb. 15, 1874), p. 30:

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Theater.

 

Even the heathen Cicero mockingly exclaims to those who declared the theater to be a school of virtue, “O, the comedy, that is to me an excellent improver of life, which would not exist at all if one did not approve of shame and vice.” (The Latin reads as follows: “O praeclaram vitae emendatricem, comoediam, quae, si flagitia non probaremus, nulla esset omnino.”)

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      The "comedy" presented today by the media is only deepening our "approval of shame and vice".  And so all laws in America against shame and vice are being not only removed, but reversed! — Der Lutheraner is making the point that even unbelieving heathen can have worldly wisdom.  But in today's America, and indeed worldwide, "shame and vice" are not only promoted, but are actually taught in its universities, also according to a North Korean refugee, one who has, so far, not claimed to be a Christian: "Columbia University reminded her of the oppressive regime".