The 48 Laws of Power
If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
4.6 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In 1996, a frustrated screenwriter got a fellowship in Italy. Twenty years later, Beyoncé released "Lemonade."
Content warning: This episode includes a mention of suicide.
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Sources:
- Rebecca Solnit’s “A Paradise Built in Hell”
- The Half-Century in Bullshit: On Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s “The 48 Laws of Power”
- A Book of Anecdotes, 1957
The Little Brown Book Of Anecdotes - Fear Nothing: Self-Fashioning and Social Mobility in 50 Cent’s The 50th Law
- The fear of conflict leads people to systematically avoid potentially valuable zero-sum situations
- The Immigration Dilemma
- You Can Win But I Can't Lose
- If you rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
- Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides
- A Genesis of Conflict: The Zero-Sum Mindset
- Forbes Winslow’s Physic and Physicians
- The role of masculinity in men's help-seeking for depression: A systematic review
- The Strange, Sad Story of Joe Orton, His Lover, and 72 Stolen Library Books
- A Failure Of Initiative
- New Orleans reaches settlements for police shootings after Hurricane Katrina
- Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm gonna send you the sirens in Park Slope. |
| 0:05.0 | This is gonna be a fucking problem all episode, isn't it? |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to New York. |
| 0:08.5 | The big apple. |
| 0:09.5 | Keep in something about you being in New York |
| 0:11.6 | for this episode, that way we get weirdos |
| 0:13.6 | in our mentions being like, |
| 0:14.7 | but you're still doing it on Zoom? |
| 0:16.5 | This is what is so fucking fascinating to me is like, |
| 0:18.6 | I started, God, there's like a starter |
| 0:21.3 | who's pissed all going on outside. |
| 0:22.9 | So no, that is a, there's construction near you. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm like two blocks from the harming building going up. |
| 0:29.9 | That is some sort of construction site, |
| 0:32.9 | Flintstones, horn. |
| 0:34.5 | Within limits, of course. |
| 0:36.2 | Wait, there's a siren outside. |
| 0:37.9 | There's sirens a lot in New York. |
| 0:38.9 | Has anyone talked about this? |
| 0:39.9 | No one has. |
| 0:40.9 | There's noises in New York. |
| 0:41.7 | This is why every Brooklyn based podcast |
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