Front page of Reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/StockMarket/comments/1k40bxh/there_is_something_else_going_on/
Trump is using exorbitant tariffs to bankrupt as much of the American economy as possible so that his billionaire buddies can scoop it all up at fire sale prices
People keep ignoring the factual evidence that the entire population has been manipulated by Russia and Cambridge Analytica. this is about self-destructing the USA with egomania and “Hate as Faith”, every person in USA is messaging a common message: *Hate Americans, Hate harder" every day in 2024 and 2025. Surkov won since March 2013, USA lost an information war to the Kremlin. People can’t even name the players and dates of the Internet Research Agency, and keep thinking American Billionaires are in charge, they aren’t, the 5,000 alternate reality screen games are running the show, crafted by Putin and Cambridge Analytica in late 2012.
Front page of Reddit on Easter Sunday, nobody makes the connection
If you can emotionally condition your body to experience the elevated feelings of your desired future - gratitude, love, inspiration - before it happens, you begin to biologically live in that future. You literally signal new genes in new ways.
Do people not realize this is what Church and Mosque do to people? It’s as if I’m living in year 2025 and nobody here ever studied how The Crusades of Europe vs Levant worked, or how terrorism works on human minds and bodies. People fall in love with the story told by the Bible and Quran of Heaven and believe in this love so much they will ignore all truth and reality. It is described for 2,000 years in the Levant in Bible verse “1 John 4:20” that people say “I Love Heaven” and that it is wrong to do this.
I just can’t get over how many Star Wars fans I have met in my life and not a one seems to have read George Lucas’s “Power of Myth” he filmed in 1986 and 1987 for his audience / fans to understand and be educated on these things. Not a single reply in this front-page posting shows that anyone has ever learned from those Skywalker Ranch interviews.
“That’s what people are doing all over the place—dying for metaphors. But when you really realize the sound, “AUM,” the sound of the mystery of the word everywhere, then you don’t have to go out and die for anything” - https://billmoyers.com/content/ep-6-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-masks-of-eternity-audio/
Carl Sagan 1995 words are now USA reality
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding (year 1995) of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
Carl Sagan, teacher and educator, who was often in mass media systems was not the first to give the warning about loss of society to media systems of “10 seconds or less” behaviors, memes that fit the Apple iPhone screen size, HDTV Fox News, etc. A decade earlier in 1985, Neil Postman (educator / teacher) also made a prediction about America’s future.
“My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it’s not Orwell, he warned, it’s Brave New World. The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right.” - Andrew Postman. February 2, 2017
This is the USA Sunday April 20, 2025.
“Amusing Ourselves to Death” along with “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television” are two books on media that dramatically changed the course of my life. Had I not read them, there is a good chance I would have stayed under the purview of modern media, and western society.
“Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”
I haven’t read it, thanks for the pointer.
Boy, the same concept applied to the iPad and iPhone medium and technology…
Yes, it is still relevant to today and I suggest anyone read it. As much for the shock about what they knew about the effects of advertising, even back then. Not sure how the science holds up today, but a good discussion about how television (and likely internet video) short-circuit parts of the brain necessary for critical thinking.
Trivialization is the act of making something seem less important, serious, or complex than it actually is. It involves reducing something to a trivial or insignificant level, often with the intent of dismissing or minimizing its significance.
The constant meme machines hammering the 5,000 alternate reality screen games upon the population, people trivialize it.
Fox News language and thinking that conditions minds with wealth televangelism of Rupert Murdoch’s media systems. People trivialize it, act like it is normal, and refuse to study media ecology of how it influences every other media platform. When education and learning and understanding is presented how the Mosque and Church and Synagogue do the same thing as Rupert Murdoch media environments to empower land lords and kings over everyday people, people dismiss it, trivialize it, act like it is unimportant topic.
The anti-intellectualism problems of meme-think Twitter-thinking meme-head society people trivialize and LOL and are so amused that they can’t even understand what they have lost. Russia has won your heart and mind with surreal comedy and absurd humor, and all you do is mock humanism and goodness itself in favor of mocking and name-calling and LOL at orange skin color and poopy diapers of Donald Trump and side-act Elon Musk all 2024 and year 2025.
It is sickening, sick society, bottom to top, and has been since Q4 2014 when the Putin Media Invasion of Cambridge Analytica mental payloads had been deployed for 18 months. People can not get enough of mocking Donald Trump’s image and mimicking his mass dehumanization behaviors on Twitter.
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
These are all great points. May I give you a little unsolicited advice? It will be the same advice that I believe made me more effective with my messaging. also, it was hard advice for me to get at the time, but it has worked wonders.
I’m also very much on the spectrum, so I’m more likely to read a wall of text than one of our peers lol. But, the people that you need to reach and teach (and you have many good things to teach) are not like us. They can only consume bite-sized nuggets, and they like to connect ideas on their own. Brevity is your friend.
Even our dumbest fellow humans are smarter than we give credit. We are all essentially large language models that are parroting what we have been taught, or looking for patterns that we have learned. We all learn better when we think we’re doing it on our own, versus having someone else do it for us.
May I give you a little unsolicited advice? It will be the same advice that I believe made me more effective with my messaging. also, it was hard advice for me to get at the time, but it has worked wonders.
Sure, and I’m 55 years old, and I’ve heard this told to me every day of my life that I verbally communicate since age 12 in 1982. The same conformity enforcers who want to wreck you for using language outside of their ego system.
This is why I traveled to the South America (Arica, Chile) to live in 2004, how I predicted the Arab Spring on December 16, 2009 from Austin Texas study of social media systems and the newly emerging smartphone culture, and went to Algeria in North Africa on December 3, 2010 - and over to the Middle East for the Syria war outbreak to monitor in Amman Jordan in March 2011 for a couple years.
I just couldn’t believe how much people murder and kill and go to war with each other over the most superficial shallow values of language and communications. But after all that experience in Africa / Middle East, I fully understood and recognized what was happening when Cambridge Analytica and Russia unleashed on the World Wide Web in March 2013 the 5,000 language and communications alternate reality game patterns onto Reddit, Twitter, news comment sections… because the way to wreck human minds more than any other way is to communicate slightly differently.
May I give you a little unsolicited advice? It will be the same advice that I believe made me more effective with my messaging. also, it was hard advice for me to get at the time, but it has worked wonders.
You know what worked wonders for me facing up to the egomania of people who want to direct you how to communicate? James Joyce’s book Finnegans Wake fro 1924 onward. www.WakeIndra.com
I also teach it over on !JamesJoyce@lemm.ee Lemmy community.
James Joyce’s excellent writing has a lot of cures for language, Tower of Babel, egomania in English readers and communicators!
Even our dumbest fellow humans are smarter than we give credit.
This isn’t about smart or dumb. This is about !RemedialMorality@lemm.ee people not being able to distinguish “good” and flocking to bad, especially with social machine devices in their hands and HDTV media distortion. How people think that what they consume on social machines is the same as reality itself.
“Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, page 56, February 28, 1966 www.LazyWake.com
the people that you need to reach and teach (and you have many good things to teach) are not like us.
They are inside the 5,000 Kremlin alternate reality games, and the Middle East Bible / Torah / Fiction alternate reality simulacra story patterns, MonoMyth fiction patterns. As I have been doing full time since December 16, 2009 - I can only try to get people to recognize the danger this poses to humanity when Hate Harder is their core value and faith.
To be clear, I’m not asking you to change your message or censor yourself. I could turn the ego question back on you. Why should anyone read such large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials? They likely won’t, and will move on. I’m 50, and just learned this 3 years ago myself. If you saw my old reddit account, you would have seen similar walls of text. I still say the same things. but, now i feel like more people actually listen, learn, and respond.
Why should anyone read such large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials? They likely won’t, and will move on.
The fact they are addicted to Tweet-length and Tweet-think is the problem. Neil Postman’s book is only 184 pages, it is in any used bookstore from 1985 for probably $6 cost. “large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials” - Neil Postman is not difficult to read, there are even videos that cut the subject down to brief consumption.
6 minutes and 15 seconds on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUGwC9jXCM
I created a Lemmy community too:
If you saw my old reddit account, you would have seen similar walls of text. I still say the same things. but, now i feel like more people actually listen, learn, and respond.
I understand what you are saying, that TLDR and ELI4 stuff sells better. I have known that since Neil Postman’s book came out in 1985. I’m entirely self-aware of how I communicate and the kind of craving and advice you have about how to mimic Donald Trump and Elon Musk and be much more popular in year 2025 on social machine systems.
Yes, i agree that is much of the problem. But, they are not that way on purpose, they are a result of the system. They can’t help but be that way. Us being better communicators is showing them compassion, to help them.
Us being better communicators is showing them compassion, to help them.
Nobody can help them, so far. The problem has in no way been solved. It is entirely out of control, unstoppable since unleashed in March 2013.
But, they are not that way on purpose, they are a result of the system.
Yes, Russia won their hearts and minds. America lost an information war, nobody defended them.
No defense or solution has been found to the Kremlin + Cambridge Analytica 5,000 alternate reality screen games. People are unable to resist self-destruction and mass dehumanization, egomania, outcomes.
People in USA have consistently choose to attack Americans and dehumanize Americans instead of gong to Neil Postman’s book or choosing to listen to !Malala@lemm.ee or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on why Hate Harder is a horrible idea and will wreck the entire world, which we are well on the way in April 2025 USA. Neil Postman’s book has been rotting on the bookshelf since 1985. But the 5,000 alternate reality screen games CA and Kremlin cooked up are just too attractive to people.
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Константин Рыков November 14, 2016 ·
Часть вторая.
В чем заключалась наша идея с Дональдом Трампом?
За четыре года и два дня… необходимо было пробраться ко всем в мозг и захватить все возможные средства массового восприятия действительности. Обеспечить победу Дональда на выборах президента США. После чего создать политический союз между Соединенными Штатами, Францией, Россией (и ещё рядом других государств) и установить новый мировой порядок.
Четыре года и два дня - это с одной стороны очень большой срок, а с другой очень маленький. Наша идея была безумна, но реализуема. Для того, чтобы в этом во всем разобраться для начала нужно было “оцифровать” все возможные виды современного человека.
Дональд решил пригласить для этой задачи - специальный научный отдел “Кембриджского университета”.
Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - “идеальный образ” возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем… положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.
Разработка в итоге обошлась Дональду Фредовичу в 5 миллионов долларов. Но! Он получил в свои руки - секретное супер-оружие. Кто занимался таргетированной рекламой… поймёт, что это значит. Помните, сколько всего денег потратили фонды Клинтон и “их сторонники” на кампанию по всему миру? В 5 раз больше, чем Трамп. Зато, кто вложил в сетевое продвижение в 5 раз больше Хиллари и стал президентом? Тоже Дональд Трамп.
Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети. И мы стали искать тех, кто справился бы с этой задачей лучше других.
В самом начале смельчаков и романтиков было не очень много. Пара хакерских группировок, гражданские журналисты из Викиликс и политический стратег Михаил Ковалев.
Следующим шагом необходимо было разработать систему передачи задач и информации, чтобы никакая гэбуха и АНБ не смогли её спалить.
Как сделать так, чтобы даже люди не говорящие на языке друг друга, могли бы обмениваться информацией быстрее всех, понимать друг друга с полуслова, чувствовать тренды и влиять на их развитие? На программирование такой системы ушёл примерно год. Ещё год ушёл на тесты и доработку. В итоге. За год с небольшим, мы установили “Медиафильтр” всем, кого успели подтянуть в наш заговор и 18 августа 2015 года открыли портал Трамп-2016.
So, if you don’t think anyone can help them, then why do you do what you do?
