A truly decadent and indulgent episode for the genuinely twisted wordheads and storyfreaks still crawling on all fives. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.

⁠Music by Anapse⁠, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials

Books

Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson

Better Than Sex: The Gonzo Papers Vol 4 by Hunter S Thompson

Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph Watkins

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb

Goebbels by Peter Longerich

HST's Best Audiobook Narrator: Scott Sower

Film

⁠Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb⁠

⁠Fear and Loathing in Aspen⁠

⁠Inherent Vice⁠

⁠Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas⁠

⁠The Rum Diary⁠

Sundry Fed, Spook, and Military Initiatives

COINTELPRO (FBI)

MHCHAOS (CIA)

Project Plowshare (DARPA)

With special guest Deputy Dick filling in (for) Richard Sinex.

⁠Music by Anapse⁠, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials

--Books--

Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson

Better Than Sex: The Gonzo Papers Vol 4 by Hunter S Thompson

Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph Watkins

Dark Alliance by Gary Webb

Goebbels by Peter Longerich

HST's Best Audiobook Narrator: Scott Sower

--Film--

⁠Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb⁠

⁠Fear and Loathing in Aspen⁠

⁠Inherent Vice⁠

⁠Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas⁠

⁠The Rum Diary⁠

--Sundry Fed, Spook, and Military Initiatives--

COINTELPRO (FBI)

MHCHAOS (CIA)

Project Plowshare (DARPA)

Music Credit: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 30 performed by Paavali Jumppanen, available on Museopen.

The Alan Shapiro translation of the Oresteia is my favorite.

Another episode (Hemlock #5) I did about Aeschylus can be found here. It talks in greater depth about the metaphor of the net, and centers Clytemnestra as the hero/main character of the post-Trojan scene.

For fun and profit: reading the Wikipedia page on the Eleusinian Mysteries.

He who learns, must suffer.
Even in our sleep, pain: which time cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart.
Until, in the fullness of time, against our will and in our despair
Through the awful grace of God
Comes wisdom-

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying,

Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.

Matthew 26:48

Watch Judas and the Black Messiah:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/judas-and-the-black-messiah

Follow Sabrina on Bluesky or Patreon:

⁠Note To Self // Patreon⁠

Sabrina Jennings // Bluesky

Fundraisers, Palestine Support, and Good Programs:

⁠⁠Amjad Hamad and his Family⁠⁠

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⁠⁠Sammar and her Husband⁠⁠

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⁠⁠Palestinian Youth Movement⁠⁠

References, Books, Mentions

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• The Riot Report (DocDocs 6)

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Weathermen

• Rainbow Coalition

• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

• One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (Two Volumes) by Whitney Webb

• FBI Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King Jr

• An African American and Latinx History of the US by Paul Ortiz

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

• COINTELPRO

• MHCHAOS / Operation CHAOS

• Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb

• Drugs as Weapons Against Us (Documentary)

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Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus (1929-2017) was a ⁠professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley⁠ who specialized in phenomenology, 20th century Continental philosophy, artificial intelligence, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and the aesthetics/literature of existentialism from Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard to ⁠Terrence Malick⁠. He is probably most famous for his ⁠exposition of Heidegger's early masterpiece⁠ "Being and Time" (German: Sein und Zeit), and for his ⁠negative predictions about artificial intelligence.⁠ He taught multiple courses through MOOCs from roughly 2006-2012 about Greek philosophy, existentialism in film and literature, Heidegger's opus Being & Time, and the limits of AI. In this course he uses the ⁠Fitzgerald poetic translation⁠ of the Odyssey with his own amendments and R. Lattimores' meaning-literal translation.

He was also extremely kind to me.

Arete, techne, poesis, aletheia, gnosis...

Books Mentioned:

The Discovery of the Mind - Bruno Snell

The Greeks and the Irrational - E. R. Dodds

Chapters:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:22:40) Lecture 1

(01:03:31) Lecture 2

(02:12:12) Lecture 3

(03:19:29) Lecture 4

(04:29:04) Lecture 5

(05:38:59) Lecture 6

Watch "Cruel and Unusual" on Kanopy!

https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/cruel-and-unusual

Follow Sabrina and I on Bluesky or Patreon:

⁠Note To Self // Patreon⁠

Sabrina Jennings // Bluesky

Hemlock // Patreon

William Engels // Bluesky

Fundraisers, Palestine Support, and Good Programs:

⁠⁠Amjad Hamad and his Family⁠⁠

⁠⁠Rulin and Family⁠⁠

⁠⁠Sammar and her Husband⁠⁠

⁠⁠MSF (Doctors Without Borders)⁠⁠

⁠⁠Palestinian Youth Movement⁠⁠

Books and Sources Mentioned:

Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison by Chris Hedges

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh

The Minds of Men (YouTube Documentary)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Era of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Aramark and Prison Industrial Labor (Article)

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Follow Sabrina on Bluesky or Patreon:

Note To Self // Patreon

Sabrina Jennings // Bluesky

Fundraisers, Palestine Support, and Good Programs:

⁠Amjad Hamad and his Family⁠

⁠Rulin and Family⁠

⁠Sammar and her Husband⁠

⁠MSF (Doctors Without Borders)⁠

⁠Palestinian Youth Movement⁠

Books and Sources Mentioned:

Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, and Weil by Deborah Nelson

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

"Evil resides in the pretended necessity that we claim for those choices which we make that at are, at bottom: mere preferences."

-me, a few days ago

The final book in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, on the compatibility of divine omniscience and human free will, the eternal and the continual, and the rarefaction of intelligence.

Cheers! Virginia Woolf is next...

Music: Beethoven, String Quartet No 13, "Cavatina", Orion String Quartet. I also recommend the Lindsay String Quartet version, and the Takács Quartet on Decca.

English translation by WV Cooper, with some modifications by the host (e.g. dropping some 'thee' and 'wherefore' archaisms)