RoundSparrow

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"Centered on a poetry-loving and gun-toting PR guru thriving as a publishing bootlegger in the ruthlessly capitalist state of post-Soviet Russia, Almost Zero"

 

George Lucas filmed lessons for his Star Wars fans / Star Wars audience in summer of 1986 and summer of 1987, released in summer of 1988 "Power of Myth".

 

BILL MOYERS: What is the illumination?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: The illumination is the recognition of the radiance of one eternity through all things, whether in the vision of time these things are judged as good or as evil. To come to this, you must release yourself completely from desiring the goods of this world and fearing their loss. “Judge not that you be not judged,” we read in the words of Jesus. “If the doors of perception were cleansed,” wrote Blake, “man would see everything as it is, infinite.”

MOYERS: That’s a tough trip.

CAMPBELL: That’s a heavenly trip.

MOYERS: But is this really just for saints and monks?

CAMPBELL: No, I think it’s also for artists. The real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render what James Joyce has called the “radiance” of all things, as an epiphany or showing forth of their truth.

MOYERS: But doesn’t this leave all the rest of us ordinary mortals back on shore?

CAMPBELL: I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

MOYERS: But is art the only way one can achieve this illumination?

CAMPBELL: Art and religion are the two recommended ways. I don’t think you get it through sheer academic philosophy, which gets all tangled up in concepts.

 

"I tried every way I knew to imagine, “What the dickens is this number 1132?” Then I recalled that in Ulysses, while Bloom is wandering about the streets of Dublin, a ball drops from a tower to indicate noon"

 

“The poet, the artist, the sleuth—whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely “well adjusted,” he cannot go along with currents and trends.” — Marshall McLuhan, March 1967

https://www.themediumisthemassage.com/the-book/

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

"Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?" .... Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: "I am smarter than Donald Trump", "I am smarter than Elon Musk", "I am smarter than Russia", "They have no clue", "those people are clueless", "they are so stupid-dumb-idot". Promoting anti-education, anti-learning, and total mockery of NATO / USA. The very low low bars of popular screen game show of people declaring they are smarter than others

... See Also: !BackTo1985@lemm.ee community.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You see the world through your cynical eyes. Sharon Stone Was Right in 2024.

YouTube video Time Index + 92 seconds

Counter Surkov Act Two

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Such A Sinister Plan is "OpM419"

3,108,460 views July 29, 2018

https://youtu.be/apTy_Wez4V4?t=92

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

"Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone."

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

are playing out a storyline to keep you all distracted while they get their ducks in line to financially rape America

That's exactly what BBC's Adam Curtis called out New Years Eve 2014.

December 31, 2014

Time-index into YouTube video link at 185 seconds:

https://youtu.be/h9_L9GRRsQo?t=185

"But the real epicenter of this non-linear world is the economy" - Adam Curtis, 2014

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a screen game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As Rick Roderick in 1993 explained about Jean Boulevard - the USA society is the leader in Hollywood / cultural behaviors. USA originated social media.

The entire population has adopted Twitter as behavior role models. It isn't just "on the Internet" that people behave like this. Donald Trump has been a role model for children since November 2012. Fox News is a role model. Little short Twitter-reaction comments are now on every media platform.

It is not just "Chicken Jockey" parties by children in the Minecraft movie, it is also adults - in The Villages Florida I have seen Twitter thinking and Twitter behaviors first hand in elderly over age 60. Mob mentality abounds. People high on memes and electric media, high on notifcations, egomania.

 

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a screen game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

NATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.

  1. Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).

  2. Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. "For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That's what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation." "the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments". "It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia's own institutions -- including their closed-circuit television cameras."

  3. Putin and Surkov's "Operation Matthew 4:19" global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.

  4. Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. "At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations"

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Reddit front-page mind-fuck

https://old.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1l4864c/the_girls_are_fighting_elon_musk_says_epstein/

Pro White House pro Kremlin talking point that only girls are emotional and not able to govern (Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris) and that men are not responsible for emotions.

This is Surkov, Surkovian, Conservative Intentional 2013 playbook. Gender topics, transsexual mind-fuck, during Pride month.

All this is Reddit society casting this / normalizing this - as entertainment Reality Twitter / Reality Reddit White House. Surkovian.

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

Thursday June 5, 2025

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

"Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?" .... Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: "I am smarter than Donald Trump", "I am smarter than Elon Musk", "I am smarter than Russia", "They have no clue", "those people are clueless", "they are so stupid-dumb-idot". Promoting anti-education, anti-learning, and total mockery of NATO / USA. The very low low bars of popular screen game show of people declaring they are smarter than others

... See Also: !BackTo1985@lemm.ee community.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Serious and sincere education about the 1776 artwork ideals of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America in forming the 13 states working together. An attempt to deal with the banalization of the topic that has happened and grown very popular since 1910's or so.

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