People like to think the problem is the “Clowns in the Palace” of the White House.
It’s everywhere, all the time, and it comes out of every place with networks of information systems.
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
People found it so amusing and entertaining that on the Internet people behaved like monsters and when they found someone weaker or confused, to mock and dehumanize with the force of powerful machines they joined in with the crowd and adopted the mob behaivors. This grew in popularity with the entire population of the United States of America, both rural and city dweller alike, finding it hilarious and absurd comedy to consume Russian information warfare payloads so they could mock and dehumanize people in the name of people putting more and more memes (putting on people) and humor content on their computing screens. An entire population who clowned around every day since 2013 to Russian simulacra patterns of “hate others in the USA, self-destruct the Earth, wreck nature for machines”. I surely can’t describe it, words don’t work, I’ve exhausted my brain trying to use [email protected] Finnegans Wake to get people to see beyond the LOL surreal comedy that Russia dumped upon the Internet in 2013. But the force of technology lust for more banal mocking has elevated clowning dehumanization into all the monsters Stephen King described in his fiction horror works.
The evidence was clear in how much anti-science was taking hold year 2015. But people go with the flow of the memes and comedy consumption, people chase the amusing entertainment, as Neil Postman warned us all in 1985, the problem is that electric media that delivers humor and entertainment makes everything, no matter how horrific or dehumanizing, entertaining and amusing.
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It started in March 2013 with the deployment of 5,000 seed patterns, and then people improvised and added their own contributions to what the Kremlin had seeded. In year 2022, ChatGPT / Large Language Models (LLM) which had been trained on all this Kremlin + Cambridge Analytica meme patterns joined in, now able to dynamically generate dehumanizing simulacra patterns in any style or fashion of visual or prose content desired.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/
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.
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“Because 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.” - Duke University Professor Rick Roderick, 1993
How do these Fox News hosts even sleep at night spouting this nonsense?
They LOL LOL amuse themselves to sleep at how awesome it is to bamboozle others (“liberal tears”) and the egomania they feel.
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Printed more than a decade ago: “In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014
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Theory four decades ago: “Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985
Mocking, mockery, absurd humor, surreal antics, wild press conferences, nonsensical mannerisms, amusement in the face of serious topics, banal governing, comedic leadership, entertaining Reality media stars.
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“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