This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski starts a Book Club, shares some etymology, and interprets The Course of Empire paintings by Thomas Cole. 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Follow The Broski Report: https://www.linktr.ee/broskireport https://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Brittany: https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski Follow Royal Court: https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourt https://www.instagram.com/royalcourt https://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Brought To You By: Tinder – Download the App Today Aura Frames – Get $45 Off* at https://auraframes.com with promo code BROSKI Seat Geek – Get $20 off your first purchase with code BROSKI20 Songs of The Week: People Watching by Sam Fender Play God by Sam Fender Long Way Off by Sam Fender Reproductive Resources: https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com LGBTQ+ Resources: https://Translifeline.org https://Glaad.org https://Pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Climate Resources: https://Oceanconservancy.org https://Climateemergencyfund.org Some helpful credible resources/links to help Free Palestine: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/ UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-trauma Doctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND.DWB_CKMSF-BRAND.DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand.E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wc World Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/ World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/ Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/ IG ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW: @eye.on.palestine @aljazeeraenglish @palestinianyouthmovement @byplestia @motaz_azaiza @impact CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:09 - Gladiator Week 01:48 - Red Rising 06:18 - Animal Farm 24:12 - Book Club 26:46 - Etymology of The Day 31:19 - The Idea of Empire 51:27 - Songs of The Week 56:01 - Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #gladiator, #bookclub, #reading, #booktok, #literature, #democracy, #animalfarm, #georgeorwell, #rebellion, #fairytales, #etymology, #rome, #empire, #gladiator, #arthistory, #painting, #samfender
Chapter 1: What is the Broski Report about?
Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.
Chapter 2: What are the themes of Gladiator Week?
Lo, citizens of Broski Nation! Lo, please sit, sit. Thank you for coming. Today we celebrate democracy. Was the Roman Republic a democracy?
Is a republic a democracy? Is that a stupid question? Is a republic... Yes, yes.
Is a republic a democracy? There is a difference between a republic and a democracy, though it's easily overlooked. You know what? Really quick, let's just sort of go through it. Okay, just read through this for like 45 seconds, realized that I don't care and I have other stuff to get to.
Okay, today is not the day we find out what the difference is between a republic and a democracy, but maybe tomorrow. Always look to tomorrow, team. This dress is about to piss me off. Okay, Broski Nation, welcome, first of all, and let me sort of just address the elephant in the room. It's Gladiator Week. It's Gladiator Week. Happy Gladiator Week to all who celebrate!
And also Wicked Week, I guess. What are they calling it? Glicked? Yes. Okay. So much to get through today. This one's going to be a brainy one. So if you're feeling smart today, or if you're not feeling smart today, lock in regardless, because we're going to get through some things today, okay? Today is about learning. It's about observing. It's about having a curious and open, kind spirit.
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Chapter 3: What did Brittany learn from the Red Rising series?
So let's get into that. Before I jump into that, however, we're going to do a quick book club because I just finished the book series that I've been reading for literally the last four or five months, and I feel empty. I feel empty. They killed off one of my favorite characters, and I feel like I lost a family member. Like, it's that sadness that settles somewhere deep in the pit of your stomach.
Like, I cannot kick it. I wake up every morning, and I'm like, fuck, I miss him. And it's just a character in a book. So... I want to talk about that really quick. Yeah, I finished Red Rising, that whole series.
It is truly... It's amazing, honestly, the way that things line up because that whole book series is like I've spoken about 800 times based around the Romans' idea of what a proper society is. And of course, it's adapted to this future dystopian sort of...
scenario, post-American empire, post, you know, the raping and pillaging of Earth, and our move to Mars after we have completely desolated this planet. All that to say... It really heavily plays on this idea of what is, I mean, the classic eternal question, right? What is the best way to govern ourselves? And we still don't know. You know what I mean?
Like we have tried many different forms and failed at many different forms. I don't know if there is an ideal format because who said that shit that was like, the greatest argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter. That sort of shit is very heavily at play here. Basically, you see this classic story of rebellion against the oppressive party.
And in Red Rising, you go from this, I don't even know what you would call it technically, but there's a sovereign, and then there are her ruling bodies around her, and then the rest of society is stratified. Is that the word I'm looking for? Stratisfied. Like there are levels to it. And it is a ranking of important. It is a very classist and racist ranking because that's how it was designed.
We see, I mean, Red Rising, of course, is the indication that it is a rebellion novel. It's about revolution and overthrowing your masters. Throughout the course of it, you see it take a few turns, though. There are different factions within the different members of society where this one might have a king, okay, because of their cultural whatever. And then this one has this sort of
rebellion leader who's reluctant and doesn't want to become a leader, but of course he's the obvious choice for who must become leader. Then there are the people who want power, who can never have it, okay? So you see it go from an empire to a sort of, I mean, I don't even know what they would call it, a sovereign, like you have a ruling sovereign, right? then you see a republic be set up.
And democracy is always this like prohibited term in this book series where people are like, well, you don't, surely you don't mean democracy. And it's laughed at. And then, you know, they build the republic, but the tea is the republic fails because of course it does. You know what I mean? So all that to say, this started me down this really intense...
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Chapter 6: What are the key takeaways from the Book Club discussion?
I've had a dream where Mr. Jones no longer exists, and we have this farm to ourselves, and it is animal farm, and we no longer have masters. They don't whip us anymore. You know, they don't control our food. There is plenty of food in there, but
we don't have access to it, you know, because we're not smart and all these things where he's, he's acknowledging that there is a system at play where otherwise these animals have been kind of like, yeah, I'm a little hungry, but I guess life's okay. You know? And, and here's old major being like, wake up sheeple. Old Major soon passes away.
So now this beautiful idea of a utopian free society is left in the hands of two younger pigs named Snowball and Napoleon, okay? Now this is important. Old Major represents Karl Marx, right? We're talking about communism. We're talking about this sort of idea of everyone's equal. Everyone's equal.
OK, and we know that humans, quote unquote, animals cannot really enforce that because they don't really believe it. Again, all of this is a fairy tale. This is, and I'll get to why it's called a fairy tale in a second. Let me get through the synopsis. And so this beautiful idea is left in the incapable and incompetent hands of Napoleon and Snowball.
They start devising rules, okay, for this new animal farm. They stage a revolt, a rebellion, and it's successful, okay? So Mr. Jones comes out. He's trying to do whatever. They attack him. They all attack him. They chase him out of the farm. It's a success, okay?
They have Old Major's skull, they put it at the base of a flagpole, they take down the Manor Farm flag, and they put up the Animal Farm flag. They say from here on out, all animals are free and equal. They come up with seven commandments for Animal Farm, okay? Which I will read to you right now. The seven commandments. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal. Those are the seven commandments, okay? Take a second and guess if by the end of this book, they end up breaking all of the seven commandments. Yes, they do, okay?
Literally almost every single one. It is such a beautiful, short, simple work that describes this dissent of these idealistic values of, sure, of course everyone is equal, but the major theme and the conclusion that you come to at the end of this book, which the pigs even write on the fucking wall, is all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Okay? That is the point of this book.
By the end of it, you see... some of their, almost all of their autonomy be stripped. The government, quote unquote, is lying, okay? They say that grain production is up 300%, the farm has never been more successful, everyone is full and hungry, and yes, you know, we're gonna increase work hours, but it'll be for the greater good of all of the animals.
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