A Plutocrat's Guide to the Loserverse?

This is a great list, and I'm ashamed to admit I've only read a small fraction of these. But who WOULD (beside academic types) embark upon such a course of learning?

Plutocrats, aspiring billionaires, and embryo Machiavellians would all certainly benefit from reading any one of these tomes knowing, as they do, that "information plus insight" equals "opportunity and, perhaps, wealth and power" - or just more of the same when you already have at least some of each.

The "electorization" of Dumvald J trimp has a substantial likelihood to be soon decapitated by impeachment, Section 4 of the 25th amendment, or some other measure deemed necessary and (more or less) proper by those in the know. If any of this should (somehow) happen, it would likely unleash another "populist" paroxysm parallel to that which launched the orange tufted twat close enough to the White House to rape the benefit from a push from Putin and a goad from the G men.

Whether trimp is or (is not) neutralized, there may well be another upsurge not so easily managed. The financiers of Babbittry, trifling, and racial hate who support voter suppression are the same social entrepreneurs who encourage the camouflaged, beer soaked, "home grown Country Joe's" to run regularly into the woods chanting "Knee Shaggy Nadz!" and "Moron Labia!" 

These moneyspenders and media manipulators have been immensely successful in convincing a vast majority of Americans that politics, government, and democracy are nothing but frauds - and the victims of such cruel mockeries are the "good people" - the washed up, pale, pallid, bleached out, patient sufferers who are rumored to be patient no more.

Neither the particles nor the wavers of that swelling tide are likely to find the time or have the inclination to dip into this reading list. But anyone willing or able to read so far here - or even to skim through these titles and descriptions - might. 

Such people, I like to think, are a special part of a larger current that excludes none of the smaller eddies - or any titanic whirlpool. It's a current much broader and much deeper then the flailing storm that's frightening our minds and may soon spill into the streets. It's a current of hope and despair, not resignation. 

This current is neither optimistic nor pessimistic. It's a strange mixture of idealism and realism that can't easily be encapsulated into a slogan or a meme. It has no plan, no leader, no true ideology - and no religion or faith though it may share some guiding spirit that cannot be named despite our human natures that compel us to try all sorts of labels.

No matter what happens with trimp, readers and their kindred are also likely to be in the streets. Not immune from dog whistles from side streets and high windows, they are still more likely to organize themselves according to principles less confined by the blinkering of tired paradigms. 

But imagination embodied with an awareness that history does not stay sequestered in the past is the burden and the strength of readers whose purposes transcend both the self and its escape.