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Released 39 years ago today:
"I Against I," the third studio album by the American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track "I Against I."
BAD BRAINS – "I Against I"
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
43 years ago
Dirty Rotten EP/LP is the 1983 debut release by the hardcore punkrock / crossover / thrash band Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, released in November 1982
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcore #hardcorepunk #crossover #trash #DRI #history #punkrockhistory
39 years ago today
I Against I is the third studio album by American punk rock band Bad Brains, released on this day in 1986
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Pecans weren’t always holiday pie royalty 🥧
They spent thousands of years being traded, poached, ignored and reinvented. But they’re nutritious and versatile and even went to the Moon on Apollo missions (yes, literally 🚀)
https://theconversation.com/how-pecans-went-from-ignored-trees-to-a-holiday-staple-the-8-000-year-history-of-americas-only-native-major-nut-crop-268976
#Thanksgiving #history #Histodons @histodons
#OTD 50 ago, Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco died.
Spaniards are still healing from the scars of his regime, and dealing with the intergenerational trauma caused by an authoritarian regime reaching into the most intimate parts of life.
https://theconversation.com/50-years-after-francos-death-giving-a-voice-to-spanish-dictators-imprisoned-mothers-249931
#history @histodons
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Smurfs Log: I never knew my father played in a band
* Part of the "Housecleaning (Things Left in My Mom's House)" series
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The U.S. war on drugs has always entailed a degree of pressure. The Trump administration's strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats charts a new course of noncooperation. #drugs #trump #history
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Chateaubriand, Writing of a Worthless Time
Chateaubriand (1768–1848), Breton aristocrat and writer, rose to fame with Atala and René. Once a supporter of Napoleon and the Bourbons, he later condemned both for repression and censorship.
By Alex Andriesse
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/19/chateaubriand-writing-of-a-worthless-time/
Chateaubriand at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7255
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Released 41 years ago
The Crew, the first full-length album by the American hardcore punk band 7 Seconds, featuring the amazing song "Young Till I Die"
7 Seconds - Young Till I Die (Official Video)
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #7seconds #history #punkrockhistory
47 years ago today
Bob Mothersbaugh performing with Devo at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, November 20, 1978.
Photo by Clayton Call
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #devo #bobmothersbaugh #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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45 years ago today
Bad Religion performing live at USC Fraternity house, Los Angeles, November 20, 1980.
Left to right: Brett Gurewitz, Greg Graffin, Jay Ziskrout and Jay Bentley.
Photo by Gary Leonard
#punk #punks #punkrock #badrelegion #otd #history #punkrockhistory
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41 years ago
The Crew is the first full-length album by the American hardcore punk band 7 Seconds, released in November 1984
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #7seconds #history #punkrockhistory
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Bot which posts a section from a Project Gutenberg book which happens to mention the current date, and links to the book, surfacing all kinds of curious old writing you never knew existed.
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“This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy”*…
A hundred years ago a new theory about human nature was put forth by Sigmund Freud. He had discovered he said, primitive and sexual and aggressive forces hidden deep inside the minds of all human beings. Forces which if not controlled led individuals and societies to chaos and destruction.
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
But the heart of the series is not just Sigmund Freud but other members of the Freud family.
This episode is about Freud’s American nephew Edward Bernays. [See here.]
Bernays is almost completely unknown today but his influence on the 20th century was nearly as great as his uncles. Because Bernays was the first person to take Freud’s ideas about human beings and use them to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations for the first time how to they could make people want things they didn’t need by linking mass produced goods to their unconscious desires.
Out of this would come a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying people’s inner selfish desires one made them happy and thus docile. It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate our world today…
From the introduction to Adam Curtis‘ remarkable 2002 BBC documentary series, Century of Self, all-too-relevant today– how propaganda, marketing and advertising, political messaging, management techniques all “flowered” from Freud’s seed.
Here is a complete transcript of the series.
Readers can find the (riveting) documentaries themselves at:
Hypernormalization, Curtis’ 2016 BBC (sort of) sequel is here.
And keep an eye peeled for What Is It That’s Coming, a (tentatively-titled series, projected at nine parts) on which he’s currently at work.
* Adam Curtis
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As we sort signal from noise, we might consider just how far we have– and haven’t– come, as it was on this date in 1859 that Charles Darwin published The Origin of the Species. Actually, on that day he published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life; the title was shortened to the one we know with the sixth edition in 1872.
Title page of the 1859 edition
#adamCurtis #advertising #centuryOfSelf #darwin #evolution #history #hypernormalization #marketing #originOfTheSpecies #politicalScience #propaganda #science #socialPsychology #sociology
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An End to Kings, 1776
by Jack Kelly
"Author Jack Kelly of Tom Paine’s War shares with The History Reader the crucial role Thomas Paine (author of Common Sense) played in encouraging Americans to overthrow King George in 1776."
"Common Sense" at PG:
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Context is everything
Watching Ken Burns’ The American Revolution
#TheAmericanRevolution #KenBurns #TV #History
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/11/18/watching-ken-burns-the-american-revolution/
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Belinda Carlisle (Dottie Danger), John Doe, Tito Larriva, Exene Cervenka, Margot Olivera and Jane Wiedlin.
Photo by Ann Summa
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #punkrocklegends #history #punkrockhistory
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