nah

i dont care

>trusting the Glowie paper to do anything pro-American

Reminder that in a just world the same thing would happen to the CIA that happened to NERV in End Of Evangelion.

post an archive link then dumbass

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>Only posting the books and not the slop;
its sorted by most influential "work" for every 10 years starting in 1776:
1. Common Sense - Thomas Paine
2. Federalist Papers -
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3. Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
4. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
5. Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
6. Moby Dick - Melville
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7. Adventure of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
8. Poems - Emily Dickinson
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9. The New Negro: An Interpretation - Alain Locke
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10. Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 1
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anything skipped is paintings, tv shows, jeans, slogans, etc.

>Common Sense
>The Federalist Papers
>Skeleton of the mastodon exhibit
>The Star-Spangled Banner
>‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’
>George Catlin’s ‘Indian Gallery’
>‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’
>‘Moby-Dick’
>‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’
>Levi’s jeans
>‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
>‘Poems’ and ‘Poems: Second Series’ (Dickinson)
>Victor Talking Machine
>‘The Birth of a Nation’
>‘The New Negro: An Interpretation’
>Mickey Mouse
>Robert Johnson’s recordings
>‘Number 1A, 1948’ (Jackson Pollock)
>‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1’ (Julia Child)
>‘Earthrise’
>‘Thriller’
>‘Doom’ (the video game)
>‘The Matrix’
>‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’
>'Everything Everywhere All At Once'
>‘Lemonade’ (Beyonce)

>>25404214
yeah that screenshot is more than enough for instant dismissal
wake me up when "journalism" stops being malignant cancer

>>25404214
>"Its not just Im Black, but Im a Black woman, and Im a married woman"
epic

>>25404194
https://archive.ph/SuKQH

>>25404162
I expected the list to be silly but I didn't expect it to be this silly.

Obviously it was always going to be the usual mixture of wacky nonsense + recency bias + White People Bad And Irrelevant. But even the nods to the European genome of yesteryear are questionable. Emily Dickinson is good, but influential? Not convinced. Like William Blake she's *sui generis*. No-one has followed in her footsteps. Hmmm. I suppose you could argue that all great artists, even if they are not widely known, have a subtle influence on other people who themselves are influencers, so it's really hard to judge.

Sensible entries:
— Huckleberry Finn
— The Birth Of A Nation
— Mickey Mouse

Jackson Pollack might be OK. Don't mind that one too much.

If we're talking literature, then:
— Whitman, Leaves of Grass [for good or ill he opened up poetry from the old European templates]
— Ernest Hemingway, Collected Works (or pick something). [People forget just how influential he was.]
— Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep [noir is a quintessentially American invention that has become accepted worldwide]

I would also be tempted to have something by Edgar Allan Poe, although what I'm not quite sure.

Of popular music, then you obviously have
— Elvis Presley, <something>
— Bob Dylan, <something>
— Miles Davis, Kind of Blue [I guess. You need some jazz and this is the obvious candidate]

Then maybe some video games (Doom, Minecraft, Mario?)

Ideally you would want something to represent nerd / computer scientist / hacker culture in general, but it's hard to put one's finger on a single work. (Video games don't quite do it.)

You also really want something from the intersection of culture and commercialism. Ronald Macdonald or the Coca-Cola symbol, perhaps. (But are these really "works"?)


Most of the rest should be films. In particular
— King Kong
— Stagecoach [the Western is the quintessentially American film genre, just as noir is the quintessentially American literature genre]
— Citizen Kane
— Star Wars
are indisputable. Add another ten to taste.

>influence
>no Edgar Allan Poe
>>25404214
It has Moby Dick which Melville said was influenced and inspired by Edgar Allan Poe story about sailing.
The list of Poe influence could go on and on from Baudelaire to Lolita
Hell two entire genres horror and detective mystery have his influence everywhere
>>25405038
For Poe you could just do a token entry of his most famous Raven poem or Murders of Rue Morgue which people like to prop up as inventing mystery and detective stories.

>>25404216
I was ready to be disgusted, but I wasn't ready for this level of globalist degeneracy.

no Big Mac?