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kibbo kift... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbo_Kift

The other KKK: how the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift tried to craft a new world
George Orwell thought they were ‘sex maniacs’. They thought they were spiritual samurai, rebuilding Britain after the Great War. With their magical rituals, outdoor living and utopian vision, they are the most fascinating of forgotten youth movements – and their ideas still resonate
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... h-movement

Strange habits: Britain's oddest youth movement – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... n-pictures

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians
by Annebella Pollen
https://donlonbooks.com/products/the-ki ... lla-pollen

All Hael! Singing with the Kibbo Kift
https://folklorethursday.com/folk-music ... ibbo-kift/

Are we to starve with Plenty all around us?
Are we to die, because of Money Law?
In Battle cry the Money Power has ground us
Into the Dust and Death of Bankers War

CHORUS:
The drum throb coming nearer
The Green-clad masses’ might
The Life-flag showing clearer
The People’s only Fight!
Now hear the roar that drums and feet are beating!
A thousand footsteps ringing out this song,
The People’s Army, Poverty defeating
For Social Credit ends the Bankers’ Wrong!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Dilettanti
The Society of Dilettanti (founded 1734) is a British society of noblemen and scholars that sponsors the study of ancient Greek and Roman art, and the creation of new work in the style.

The group's name introduced the word dilettante (from the Italian dilettare, "to delight") into English and celebrated the interests of the amateur.

The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment
by Jason M. Kelly (Yale University Press, 2010)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698 ... dilettanti

Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_D ... _Despencer

In 1732 Dashwood formed a dining club called the Society of Dilettanti with around 40 charter members (some of whom may have been members of Wharton's original club) who had returned from the Grand Tour with a greater appreciation of classical art.

West Wycombe Park... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Wycombe_Park

It was conceived as a pleasure palace for the 18th-century libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood.

Judged against the sexual morals of the late 18th century, Dashwood and his clique were regarded as promiscuous; while it is likely that the contemporary reports of the bacchanalian orgies over which Dashwood presided in the Hellfire caves above West Wycombe were exaggerated, free love and heavy drinking did take place there.

He (John) became religious in the last years of his life, holding ostentatiously teetotal parties in West Wycombe's gardens in aid of the "Friends of Order and Sobriety" – these would have been vastly different from the bacchanalian fêtes given by his uncle in the grounds.

The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom
by Tobias Smollett (first published in 1753)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316 ... unt-fathom
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... unt_Fathom

The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe and England with little concern for the law or the welfare of others. ... Sir Walter Scott commented that the novel paints a "complete picture of human depravity".

Nicholas Revett... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Revett

He is sometimes described as an amateur architect, but he played an important role in the revival of Greek architecture. ... There are not many buildings attributed to Revett. He considered himself a gentleman and he was probably sufficiently well-off not to have to earn his living, although he is said to have experienced "pecuniary difficulties" towards the end of his life.

James "Athenian" Stuart... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_%22 ... %22_Stuart

was a Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist, best known for his central role in pioneering Neoclassicism.

The Golden Asses (detail), Thomas Patch, 1761. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University

In a group caricature from 1761, a detail of which is shown here, artist Thomas Patch presents fanciful versions of the artistic spoils acquired by the Dilettanti, including antiquities, mythological paintings, and chinoiserie. The artist portrays himself astride a gold statue of an ass, an allusion to the satirical poem "L'asino d'oro" by Niccolò Machiavelli. The inscription on the base brands the aristocratic sitters as "asinine" fops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journal ... lague_Year
How the "Journal" is to be classified has been disputed. It was initially presented and read as a work of non-fiction, but by the 1780s the work's fictional status was accepted.

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 9:00 pm yorkshire accent

The principal characters include a wealthy popular novelist, Lewis Fielding (Michael Caine), his frustrated but adventurous wife, Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), on whom he projects relentless fantasies of betrayal, and the handsome, mysterious young foreigner, Thomas Hursa (Helmut Berger), who intrudes on their uneasy marriage at Lewis's all too perverse invitation.

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 12:12 pm helmut berger is in this? what am i waiting for

https://letterboxd.com/film/negatives/
A couple’s bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.

Entering their lives one day is Reingard, a female German photographer who's been observing the couple, whom she finds intriguing.

...and one of the most gorgeous most necessary british films ever made, winstanley.

Seekers anticipated aspects of Quakerism and a significant number of them became Quakers

Some Quakers founded banks and financial institutions, including Barclays, Lloyds, ...

The Diggers advocated for an early form of public health insurance and communal ownership in opposition to individual ownership.

Ranters came into contact and even rivalry with the early Quakers... In the American colonies, there is evidence that Ranters were actually breakaway Quakers who did not agree with the standardization of belief that occurred in the late 1670s.

Gerrard Winstanley, a leader of ... the Diggers, commented on Ranter principles by denoting them as "a general lack of moral values or restraint in worldly pleasures".

https://youtu.be/MJegyQE6RYo

Babylon is fallen is fallen is fallen
Babylon is fallen to rise no more

Babylon is fallen is fallen is fallen
Babylon is fallen to rise no more

Blow the trumpets on Mt Zion
Christ shall come a second time

Ruling with a rod of iron
All who now as foes combine

Fables garment sweet rejected
And our fellowship is o'er

Babylon is fallen is fallen is fallen
Babylon is fallen to rise no more

Babylon is fallen is fallen is fallen
Babylon is fallen to rise no more

We fight for you, for freedom and for sin. — Whistleblowers (Laibach)

https://letterboxd.com/film/honor-and-glory-1968/

This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule. Situating the story at the close of the Thirty Year War enabled the depiction of the misery of the people that affects even an impoverished aristocratic milieu. Rudolf Hrušínský appears here in the role of an indecisive knight, persuaded for a long time and in vain to join the anti-Habsburg movement. The story does not only captivate through the depiction of manifold human characters, intrigues and sycophancy, but also through the circumstances ruling over the devastated farmstead, sunk in mud and crudeness.
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Review by Kai White ↓

"You are sheep and the world belongs to butchers.”

I'm going to try to get the plot together in a logical way as much as possible. During the last days of the Thirty Years War, which has been punctuated by all kinds of horrible death by this point, we focus on Vaclav. He is a landowner with a handful of serfs working on his rather run down and remote estate. Early on, he catches someone trying to break in, so he jails him. Shortly thereafter, he receives a visit from a well dressed couple who claim to represent the emperor. The guy who broke in turns out to be a man of military experience, and the couple eventually reveal themselves to be in French employ. All three want to launch a revolution. But when peace is struck, everyone, Vaclav included, is left with no direction.

A proper well wishes trying to get that out of the movie, though. For a straightforward narrative film, the plot is nigh impossible to understand while it is happening. This is far from my first foray into obscure Czech film, and I had to go digging through multiple websites once it was over to get it, particularly the third act. I understood some of the references, but the characters are incredibly overwrought and emotional, and the dialogue is thick.

There are some real highlights here, though, and it is all about the atmosphere. This is straight up GRIMY. It lets you know from the start that this is about to throw you into a depressing and dirty world, and that atmosphere NEVER. LETS. UP. While that makes it difficult to get through, it is really admirable that Bocan was able to establish that environment and keep it going. Everything, outside of maybe one or two scenes, takes place at Vaclav's manor, and the film force feeds you this consistent feeling of gloom over everything.

The music and set design are key to setting that mood, as well. This is certainly a well filmed movie. Also, there is a scene with a siege on Vaclav's estate. There are some surprisingly good gore effects there, which I was not expecting. Probably stay away if surprise graphic head wounds aren't your thing.

I liked a lot of how this was put together, but with a plot and script as dense as a forest, it's hard to give it too high of a rating. It is clear that this wasn't built for a world audience because it is so specific in the story it is trying to tell, although I'm not sure I find that a fault with the film, more with me as a viewer. I won't soon forget the intensely dirty world building, though.

https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/3 ... -and-glory

It is the year 1647 and the war has been raging for almost thirty years. Poor and dilapidated is the stronghold of the knight Václav Rynda of Loučka and so is his clothing. The family property was spent by his father who, after the loss at the battle at the White Mountain, was forced to give up his faith and had to swear submission to the Catholic Church to save his skin. Václav resembles a peasant rather than a nobleman, as he tries to find something to eat for himself and his domestics. One day, a visit comes to the stronghold. The emperor's commissioner Šrandorf and his wife ask for a night's lodging. The guest then reveals to Rynda in private that Šrandorf is not their real name and that in fact they are not even married - Jindřich Donovalský and his companion Kateřina have come in the French king's employ and want to incite a revolt against the Habsburgs in Bohemia. That very night, a gang of marauders attacks the stronghold and the guest helps the defenders of the stronghold to put them to flight. Donovalský wants to persuade the diligent Rynda to join the resistance and remains as a guest with his company for many months. His false commissioner's letter of safe-conduct saves Rynda in winter from the requisition by the emperor's army. In the meantime, Donovalský's adjutant trains Rynda's subjects in fighting. During the collection of tithes, a parish priest is unfortunately killed and the accident instigates open resistance. Rynda recalls his own roots and stands at the head of the rebellion although the news that the war is over has just arrived.