#FWakeRickRoderick #RickRoderick #SelfUnderSiege /\

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTPOaxxNqw

#MassDehumanizationPopular "Mass Dehumanization is Popular"
#TrendingTowardsMachines
#PopularityItself
#FWakeGenZ #FWakePopularity #ToxicPopularity

#TheHyperRealPresident "The Hyper Real President" as defined by #DukeUniversity #RickRoderick in year 1993

"Donald Trump's Gen Z popularity plunges (newsweek .com)" #FWakeNewsWeek

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gen-z-popularity-favorable-rating-yougov-2030595

#FWakeNintendo #FWakeMario #FWakeRickRoderick

#FWakeYear1993 #RickRoderick #Nintendo #SuperMario #SuperMarioBros
#MarioBros #Morality #WhoTeachesMorality ? "Who Teaches Morality?"

#MachineHearts #MachineMinds #FWakeMachineLike #MachineLike /\

1993 lecture by #Texan #Texas #DukeUniversity professor

"At some point in the development of technology, human beings ceased to be the reason of things and things took on their own reasons… technological things." - #RickRoderick 1993, Duke University

#FWakeTechnopoly /\ #FWakeRickRoderick
#FWakeHumanBeing /\

"current political structures are way behind this curve. They don’t understand it well at all in spite of all the talk about “The Selling of the President“. That’s very old fashioned, we all have lived with advertising for years." - #RickRoderick 1993

In 1993 it was way behind, 2013 Russia advanced to "Self Under Siege" that Roderick was talking about.

"ran a subpar campaign" - November 5, 2024. USA voters: we will vote for a dictator if they run a more entertaining campaign!

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"In fact, given this postmodern world any one of the four could emerge with the biggest one fourth depending on how they ran their campaign." - #RickRoderick 1993

https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/

"The complexity is very real but his little soundbites, his little conversations with Larry King help to reduce that complexity and they put another message in there: “Now I know it’s real complicated but we can fix it, Americans have always fixed it and we can fix it”. Well, if Baudrillard’s right we have fixed it alright. We have fixed it all the way up and down." - #RickRoderick 1993 #FWakeYear1993

Again, 1993 MORE THAN THIRTY years ago:

https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/

#TeachTheTeachers #SurkovUnreality101 "Surkov Unreality 101"

Surkov unreality often involves patterns of truth and lies. #RickRoderick in his 1993 "Self Under Siege" lecture used Fox Entertainment network as an example, citing "COPS" show.

#HyperRealityIntoxication //\\

"Why did Donald Trump simulate oral sex with his microphone at Milwaukee rally?"- November 2024

ANSWER from 1993, Duke University Professor #RickRoderick

"Laverne and Shirley work in Milwaukee in a beer factory. [] all the troubles that such a life involve are just reduced to banality, just the common rubble of little one line joke, you follow me? It’s made banal by it. It’s banalised that way."

#HyperBanal #HyperBanalization //\\

"Now, imagine what the attitudes are like on the streets of DC if you are from another race or another social class. Is it surprising – at all surprising – that our cities resemble Beirut? It’s hard to find… in other words our search here is for ourselves, under siege; trying to find who we are, under siege. But it’s kind of hard to do that when all our cities are beginning to look like Beirut, you know, that makes it harder." - #RickRoderick 1993 #FWakeY1993

https://rickroderick.org/304-marcuse-and-one-dimensional-man-1993/

"And it is a fair question to ask whether a society that produces this reaction in its young is worthy of existence at all. It really is. It’s worth asking that. Whether it’s worth being here at all. And my criticism of this society couldn’t get more bitter than it is in that case. It couldn’t possibly be. Remember, I am talking about the young I have encountered at Duke. These are privileged youth. At an elite southern school. Mostly white, mostly upper-middle to upper class." - #RickRoderick

In a world where humans have lost their identity, when we are all spectators to video clips and real-world terrorism and warfare explosions - as #RickRoderick explained in his 1993 lectures #SelfUnderSiege - the individual actors (people) sink under the spectacle of it all. And he spent 7 hours in his 8 lectures building context, with several years of hard work going into that 7 hours of teaching. It took me many many months to unravel and understand Rick Roderick's concepts fully.

Problem is

So that is the oversimplified introduction of what has gone on since 2011 that I call the "Surkov Siege" in reference to a 1993 lecture by Duke University professor #RickRoderick called #SelfUnderSiege - which also fits with Howard Bloom's chapter in his August 2000 book called #KidnapMassMind

This is about "winning the hearts and minds of the enemy", except in the case of Surkov student payloads, it often induces self-destruction... not praising of Russia directly, but NATO self-damage

#GreatSealUSAGolfing

#RickRoderick #Y1993

"I mean this insight has belonged to our culture too. I think many of you will be familiar with the Joe Hills song “You’ll get pie in the sky when you die”, and there is a certain style of American religion; I call it the Billy Graham style. I don’t dislike Billy, but it is notable that Billy Graham, you know, plays golf with the Pharaoh. I mean that’s not like Moses leading his people out of bondage, I mean, Moses didn’t play golf with the Pharaoh"

#FWakeRickRoderick

::: #RickRoderick

#Year1993

"I mean I grew up around #Baptists that hated… they loved God, loved their fellow man, but they just hated folks. You know what I mean? They loved God, but they hated everybody they knew, I mean… you get a lot of that from the like the Jesse #Helms crowd, I mean they just loved #God, but they hate everybody else badly. Sort of irritating given then great religious traditions."

#OutGroupHate "1 John 4:20"

#SpiritualRevolutionBeginsNow

#PaleBlueDotARG

#UniversityCosmos #RickRoderick Duke University, West Texan Born!

#WithoutRoundSparrowRickRoderick1993

https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/

#ThunderMeme00FB0000

#RickRoderick #DukeUniversity #Duke #UniversityCosmos #Roderick #Texan #WestTexas #Professor

#ExitingADreamWorld #HellSheHadBeenPluggedInto #WeBeginToSeeTheFlipSide

#Year1993 ::: #SelfUnderSiege #FinalEpisodeOf8

#ProblemWasTheyHadNoStable

#RickRoderickOrg

#NATOBandBunkers #NATOThinkingTanked

https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/

"All four of which are becoming more and more difficult to do under this situation of rapidly increasing complexity – which I have mentioned many times – and I mean system complexity at every level. Rapid increase in information technologies and invasions directly into the human body that interface it with machines. That goes all the way from plastic surgery to artificial hearts and implants to virtual reality where we will be able to make a person" - #RickRoderick 1993

#MediaEcologyAfterHours (Repeat Assertion)

#HyperRealityStudies #HyperRealityEducation #NATODefenseMusicalsAndOperas

"The current McDonalds ads that kind of tell a part of your life story in like a two and a half minute ad. It’s like from when you get married and when you have your grandkids until you die. You get that two and a half minutes and then there is a McDonalds thing, like “Good; I was born, I had kids, I died, and in the meantime I got a Big Mac”. - #RickRoderick 1993

"Clearly something significant has changed. And it has affected the very nature of what selves are. What humans are. What subjects are. When I talked about how my students had no dreams, I mean, what is there left to dream? When I was a kid I dreamed about dinosaurs. I had a little Walt Disney dinosaur book." - #RickRoderick 1993