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Counter Vlad Surkov techniques and methods

Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014

Peter Pomerantsev September 9, 2014: Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
Adam Curtis, BBC, December 31, 2014: On The "Contradictory Vaudeville" Of Post-Modern Politics - "What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin's advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way."
Book reading from December 5, 2014 on the subject by Peter Pomerantsev

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"A different kind of pollution, not of our environment, but of our public discourse" "Truth is becoming harder to grasp." "Tribalism and hostility are rife." - Counter Surkov - Waltzing Off Earth (www.youtube.com)

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"As we’ve looked at, humanity is a pivotal moment. We have now amassed such great technological power that we risk our own long-term survival. Alongside this power we still subscribe to an economic system that has us exploiting and polluting our planet. This pivotal moment is made more precarious still, by a different kind of pollution. Not of our environment, but of our public discourse. Just as our ecology is under threat, so too is truth and our ability to communicate."

"Truth is becoming harder to grasp, trust is becoming harder to establish, and tribalism and hostility are rife. Nothing is true and everything is possible. So, when you think about it, as humans we only really have two tools at our disposal. We have conversation and we have violence. And that’s it. Communication is all that stands between us and complete societal breakdown."

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there in small groups, right? 15 - 20 people...40 people... And it was a perilous time for our species. So we evolved deeply tribal tendencies to bond, and huddle, and protect each other and identify.

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And you know, it always strikes me: one of the great examples of this is sports fans, you know? And like English football fans, when I lived in England a couple of years, I would look at like, fans of Nottingham Forest and I was like: "Wow man, these guys will kill for a football team.. It's a game!" You know? And they're not alone, you know? It's all over. So it's deep.

16:20

You know, we live in a very polarized time, politically, and I don't think this is good for any of our nations or for, you know, for the world as a whole. It does seem that we've created these tools with social media. And there are ways that they are amplifying bad behavior and incentivizing it, rewarding it, and this experiment has been run extremely quickly with very little, you know, chance to react. Log on to any of our mass communication platforms; be that Twitter, Facebook, or whatever your hatred spreader of choice is currently, even for just 30 seconds and you'll likely be flooded with all manner of heated arguments and surrounded by frothing, splattering, fury addicts. It's like, online we stick our fingers in our ears and we just scream at each other.

17:13

If true love supposedly blossoms without regard to what the recipient of our love looks like, then hatred is something that seems to be blossoming without any regard to what the recipient of our hatred says. Social media appears to reinforce, or turbo boost our own tribal nature, because online we all live in our own echo chambers. Now, we all know about echo chambers. Now these are places where we have our own views and opinions

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

And you know, it always strikes me: one of the great examples of this is sports fans, you know? And like English football fans, when I lived in England a couple of years, I would look at like, fans of Nottingham Forest and I was like: “Wow man, these guys will kill for a football team… It’s a game!” You know? And they’re not alone, you know? It’s all over. So it’s deep.

You don't have to die for a science fiction story, The Bible. !FictionNonFiction@lemm.ee - you don't have to die for a sports team or a Donald Trump Truth Social message or a Elon Musk Twitter message. Or a Rupert Murdoch Fox News message.

George Lucas hosted lessons for Star Wars audiences at Skywalker Ranch that were published in year 1988. Hollywood film audience education by a 83 year old professor from Sarah Lawrence College.

BILL MOYERS: I interpreted that powerful and mysterious statement, “The word was made flesh,” as this eternal principle finding itself in the human journey, in our experience.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: And you can find the word in yourself, too. (Bible verse John 1:1 - memes and only memes, language and only language, poetry and only poetry. John 1:1)

BILL MOYERS: Where do you find it if you don’t find it in yourself?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: It’s been said that poetry consists of letting the word be heard beyond words. And Goethe says, “All things are metaphors.” Everything that’s transitory is but a metaphorical reference. That’s what we all are.

BILL MOYERS: But how does one worship a metaphor, love a metaphor, die for a metaphor?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: 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 because it’s right there all around. Just sit still and see it and experience it and know it. That’s a peak experience.

BILL MOYERS: Explain AUM.