#RickRoderickWasRight

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2025-05-15

"that the self is not under siege, it’s lost. It’s just lost. And if that’s true then all of the strategies by which ordinary people try to live decent good lives are lost along with it. I am not necessarily going to buy that right away, I am really not. I do think that the new, ah, technologies are going to call forth…" -

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2025-05-15

"Popularity Rating, First 100 Days"

>>> "Unpopularity Is Popular"

Rick Roderick explained this in a 1993 lecture. "Unpopularity is Popular"

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2025-05-13





Donald Trump's popularity was explained by Rick Roderick in 1993.


1. Dorf on Golf 1987
2. Tony Clifton late 1970's
3. Rodney Dangerfield was a big fan of Andy Kaufman, and he hired Clifton to open for him

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2025-05-02

1993
"The Hyper Real President 1993 lecture"

Duke University's Rick Roderick covered this in 1993 about mass media popularity is not being popular. People adore HATING Donald Trump. Hate is popular.

old.reddit.com/r/politics/comm

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2025-02-07

::: "Hyper Real President"

1993, Duke University lecture prediction theory of technology

!!!

“if Baudrillard is even onto something, what the postmodern trajectory means is that the self is not under siege, it’s lost. It’s just lost. And if that’s true then all of the strategies by which ordinary people try to live decent good lives are lost along with it. I am not necessarily going to buy that right away, I am really not (1993). I do think that the new, ah, technologies are going to call forth… I mean this is why the title of this course has been “The Self Under Siege”. If I didn’t think it was a real, virulent technological siege and just some thought up philosopher’s dream, which would not have interested me. I mean, I have no interest in that.”
     Texan Rick Roderick, Duke University
     1993 prediction, “Self Under Siege”
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2025-02-04

"Widespread Denial"

"We Teach Media Ecology Together"

/\ in 1993

            “Make America Great Again” MAGA

The most popular movement of media systems in all human history. It has been revived from year 1980 super-star Hollywood California meme systems.

Donald Trump is the most charming person in all world history on the largest world stage of all human development: social media multi-platform multi-media.

NYU Professor Neil Postman was correct in year 1985 about Ronald Reagan and “Make America Great Again” media ecology. Marshall McLuhan earlier.

Surkov has people eating out of the hands, LOL and mocking and hate of MAGA is half the simulacras.
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2025-01-22
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2025-01-07

"Neil Postman was Right" in 1985
"Rick Roderick was Right" in 1993

People have had since February 2, 2017 to promote Andrew Postman's public call-out to 1985 work. But people rather meme away with junk on every media platform.

bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/

January 7, 2025

RoundSparrow 🐦RoundSparrow
2025-01-07

People's faith that Nazi Germany and Russia are the worst possible outcomes concern me too.

Technology addiction in USA is so bad. It isn't just children at age 10 on an iPaid, it is technology addiction of the oldest people like Donald Trump.

people value the HDTV Fox News more than human beings, like he used the Nintendo machine as an example in 1993.

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