Empower me, /pol/
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>>539983583>Slum libgenYou're welcome
>>539983689Here's a library built around clear-eyed contempt for cant, crowds, and power — writers who, like Hugo in that passage, distrust both the tyrant and the mob that flatters him once he's safely dead.The misanthropes and moralists1. Montaigne — Essays2. La Rochefoucauld — Maxims3. Pascal — Pensées4. Swift — Gulliver's Travels5. Voltaire — Candide6. Samuel Johnson — Rasselas7. Schopenhauer — Essays and Aphorisms8. Nietzsche — Twilight of the Idols9. Ambrose Bierce — The Devil's Dictionary10. Cioran — The Trouble with Being BornPower unmasked11. Machiavelli — The Prince12. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War13. Tacitus — The Annals14. Suetonius — The Twelve Caesars15. Shakespeare — Julius Caesar16. Shakespeare — Coriolanus17. Dostoevsky — The Grand Inquisitor (in Brothers Karamazov, but worth a standalone edition)18. Orwell — Animal Farm19. Koestler — Darkness at Noon20. Conrad — NostromoThe mob and its idols21. Gustave Le Bon — The Crowd22. Ibsen — An Enemy of the People23. Sinclair Lewis — Babbitt24. Mark Twain — The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg25. Twain — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court26. Zola — Germinal27. Balzac — Lost Illusions28. Flaubert — Bouvard et Pécuchet29. Molière — Tartuffe30. Ben Jonson — VolponeDoomed idealists and disillusioned romantics31. Cervantes — Don Quixote32. Stendhal — The Red and the Black33. Turgenev — Fathers and Sons34. Chekhov — Selected Stories35. Flaubert — Sentimental Education36. Melville — The Confidence-Man37. Melville — Bartleby, the Scrivener (pair with a Kafka volume, below)38. Kafka — The Trial39. Camus — The Fall40. Céline — Journey to the End of the NightBitter wit and dark comedy41. Jonathan Swift — A Modest Proposal (pair with Gulliver, or find a satires-collected edition)42. Alexander Pope — The Dunciad
>>53998446843. Evelyn Waugh — A Handful of Dust44. Waugh — Scoop45. Thackeray — Vanity Fair46. Gogol — Dead Souls47. Saltykov-Shchedrin — The Golovlyov Family48. Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray49. Bierce — Tales of Soldiers and Civilians50. Hugo — Les Misérables itself, to close the loop — the one write-up in this pile that still believes something's worth saving, which after 49 volumes of contempt might land as the most radical book on the shelf.The organizing bet is Hugo's own move in that passage: contempt for opportunists who only turn on power once it's safe, and just as much contempt for crowds who worship success and abandon the fallen. Montaigne and La Rochefoucauld give you the aphoristic bitterness in small doses; Tacitus and Machiavelli show you power with the sentiment scraped off; Twain and Ibsen skewer the mob directly; and the run from Kafka to Céline is where bitterness curdles into something closer to despair — worth having on the shelf precisely because Hugo, unlike them, refuses to stop there.NAPOLEON Comprehensive biographiesNapoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts — probably the best single-volume biography; sympathetic but not uncritical, drawing on newly available lettersNapoleon: A Political Life by Steven Englund — more focused on his political maneuvering and legacyhttps://youtu.be/KkwbhL9i6pY
>>539983583Very sad that the sock puppet socialists here can't play along and post ANYTHING inspiring.OHWELL.https://youtu.be/7UdZXvLV440
Eat beans! lolThe power of methane is with thee.
>>539983583we only empower women. prove you're one and we will empower you
>>539985654Niggertier Ghettominded behavior. >I don't have enough inspirational things in my life to share, so I'll be a nigger / selfish.For shame!Timeless sounds on their first 4 albums:https://youtu.be/_A9M0Q4WEMQGreat movies
>>539986323MoviesBaraka, SamsaraHomo SapiensNovember (2017)You, the LivingHard to Be a GodBenji the HuntedPointless music linkhttps://youtu.be/puUNIv6OXHw...Romper StomperCoherenceLockeCalvary & The GuardStalker, Solaris, Mirror, etcCornetto trilogyHeathersThe VoidCabin in the WoodsDead Texan (2004)EraserheadNASA liftoff footagesMidnight Zone (2027)RavenousWatership Down / Plague DogsAnxious AnimationA Zed & Two NoughtsProspero's BooksThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife, Her LoverThe Falls (1980)The Magician's House (2007)Europa (1931)Emma (1964)Point Blank, Hell in the PacificSeconds (1966)Lira's Forest (2017)La Presence Desolee (1965)Forest of Bliss (1986)Drugstore CowboyThat One Were Matt Dillon Is A Serial Killer (House That Jzck Built?)Car CemetaryChronosStan BrakhageDer GolemI do not know what it is I am like (1986)Liquid Sky (1982)BladerunnerMountain Language (short)
>>539983583God gave us eyes at the front of our heads so we could look forward to the future. If we had eyes at the back of our head, we would only see what we're leaving behind!
>>539986394Sleep Has Her House (2017)Witching & BitchingEarly cartoonsAnything that makes you feel like you've been in a horrific car accident and are just barely regaining consciousnessBuffalo 66GummoThe Temptation of Saint TonyTHE COLOR OF POMEGRANATESEdward II, The Tempest, Jubilee (Derek Jarman)Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, Testament of OrpheusWhite Reindeer (1952)Saragossa Manuscript (1965)Decoder (1984)Cha Cha (1979)Dogs in SpaceCold Turkey (Aussie ...PSA?, worth hunting for)Withnail & ITrainspotting 1 & 2.Encounters at the End of the WorldPohjolan Tytar (1951)Magasis Kolo (1970)Chess of the WindDinner w Andre, Black Moon1st 1/2 of Tideland, (Gilliam has good ideas, horrible execution imo, still...)The Deserter (1970)Chasseurs et Chamans (2003)Medea (1969)TTC Turning Points in Medieval HistoryThe Reflecting Skin (1990)Invention (2024)The Visit (YAHTZEE!!!)Picnic (1948)El Kalaa La Citadelle (1985)Oh Uomo (2004)Praznik (1957)Riddles of the SphinxThis is Cosmos (2014)The Russian Revolution Was Caused By The Sun (2015)Immortality and Resurrection (2017)Braguino (2017)Agata (1966)The Lead Shoes (1949)It's All Gone, Pete TongParty MonsterTo Parsifal(1963)Libido (1988)Drugie Sumienie (1953)La Deuxiene Femme (1967)El Arte del Tabaco(1974)Performance (1970)Flesh + Blood (1985, for fans of the Conan)I forget the rest.These are all mostly on rutracker.org by the way..Now, I know what you're thinking, anon.You're thinking:>Pete Tong, starting Thoros of Myr??>And Yarp Narp Lurch (Hot Fuzz) starring Sandor Clegane???Y.Also, supposedly Orson Wells made a bunch of interesting movies. At least according to Cosmic Trigger author, Robert Anton WilsonIf you're into that sorta thing.
>>539986394Top 10?BarakaHomo SapiensJubileeCornetto trilogy, sooo many jokes per secondGame of Thrones (w audiobook)These Final Hours, I supposeThe Last Man on Earth, "annuda day to get through, better get started?" (Vincent Price)Tribulation 99Level Five, only decent thing that director did imoCalvary..Poor CowHe Died with a Felafel in His Hand, starring Locke from GoT15 odd part, documentary: The Story of FilmHitler subject, art film format, The Empty MirrorNever Cry WolfHouse (80s horror comedy, starring Norm from Cheers)The Boxcar ChildrenGo (90s rave film)When the Wind Blows (Pink Floyd, David Bowie etc)The Hunger (Bowie, Surandon)Riff Raff, (starring Begbie from Trainspotting)DragonslayerThe Passion of Joan of Arc, with Antonin Artaud(Original) FrankensteinGerryDune, last 30 minutes are shit because he ran out of money/time, the rest is pure LynchA Field in EnglandThe Congress (except for the animated parts)Company of WolvesCoonskin (better than Wizards, by far)THE FORBIDDEN ZONEThe Silence (Christian focus, drama)KrullThe Man Who LaughsThe Man with the Movie Camera (supply your own background music or choose from one of various modern or old options that musicians have already done)THE MAGICIAN (THE FACE) I BergmanTriangle (woman on boat, horror)Science is Fiction, (Painleve)Magic ChristianLittle MurdersGetting StraightTaking OffSteelyard BluesYellow Submarine
>>539986458What about when we're swimming and want to look at clouds or see if any one is sneaking up on us?
