The 48 Laws of Power

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” (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070/a-paradise…)
• Kelly Link's "White Cat, Black Dog" (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704687/white-cat-…)
• The Half-Century in Bullshit: On Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s “The 48 Laws of Power” (lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-half-century-i…)
• A Book of Anecdotes, 1957 (archive.org/details/bookofanecdotes0000dani)
The Little Brown Book Of Anecdotes (archive.org/details/littlebrownbooko00fadi)
• Fear Nothing: Self-Fashioning and Social Mobility in 50 Cent’s The 50th Law (tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03007766.2010.…)
• The fear of conflict leads people to systematically avoid potentially valuable zero-sum situations (nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22849-y#:~:text…)
• The Immigration Dilemma (spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/…)
• You Can Win But I Can't Lose (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002…)
• If you rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9075794)
• Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides (nathannunn.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/12/Zero…)
• A Genesis of Conflict: The Zero-Sum Mindset (scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar…)
• Forbes Winslow’s Physic and Physicians (books.google.ki/books?id=T3YFAAAAQAAJ&prin…)
• The role of masculinity in men's help-seeking for depression: A systematic review (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027…)
• The Strange, Sad Story of Joe Orton, His Lover, and 72 Stolen Library Books (atlasobscura.com/articles/joe-orton-stolen-books)
• A Failure Of Initiative (nrc.gov/docs/ML1209/ML12093A081.pdf)
• New Orleans reaches settlements for police shootings after Hurricane Katrina (theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/new-orlean…)
• Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity (propublica.org/article/post-katrina-white-vigi…)
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