why was he so smug?

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thats what leninism does to you
>Perhaps I may be allowed to tell you about an incident that took place a long time ago, it must be twentyfour years, between Brecht and myself in Los Angeles. I had just worked out the main thrust of my book Against Epistemology... My idea was not to criticize idealism dogmatically by contrasting it with a materialist philosophy, but to explode idealism from within, by judging it according to its own yardstick. I explained this to Brecht on one occasion. It did not occur to Brecht to take this idea at all seriously. Instead, he remarked that there already existed a book that was, so to speak (he often expressed himself in such terms), a classical book – he meant Lenin’s book on empiriocriticism. In it all that work had already been done; this was a book that had authority, and if anyone were to undertake this philosophical chore once again it would simply be a wasted effort. . . . And I could not avoid the impression that he tended a little bit to think that, if Lenin had accomplished this in such a book, it was something of an impertinence on the part of someone who was unable to boast of a comparable political success to do all that was claimed and recited – in what I can only call unending and desperately monotonous repetitions.
t. adorno

>>9381246
He looks really gay. Was he gay?

>>9381246
Stupidity.

>>9381246
He was the frontman of the fourth best band in Hull.

>>9381246
He was a very good playwright.

>>9381315
No, he married an actress who was in a lot of his plays.
>>9381246
Seems real butthurt, like he's been dwelling on it for decades about something Brecht probably forgot about out before the next weekend.

>>9381315
He was banging Lotte Lenya on the side. You just know.

Because he knew that generations of theatre students would misinterpret 'Brechtian' technique and distill it down to a wildly out of place scene wherein everyone starts dancing to The Pointer Sisters' 'I'm So Excited' and take their clothes off in an otherwise mundane play.

Name one [1] amateur theatre production where this hasn't happened.