RoundSparrow

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"The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own." - Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto, who died more than a decade before January 1991 topic of the Wikipedia link in this Lemmy posting.

 

Barrytown song Lyrics: "In the beginning we recall that the word was hurled"

 

"the word was hurled"

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/05/spear/

In 1893 Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer published an article titled “Ueber den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene” in a Vienna medical journal. The title could be rendered in English as “On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena”. The following was the pertinent passage in German about the beginning of civilization:

"Aber, wie ein englischer Autor geistreich bemerkte, derjenige, welcher dem Feinde statt des Pfeiles ein Schimpfwort entgegenschleuderte, war der Begründer der Civilisation, so ist das Wort der Ersatz für die That und unter Umständen der einzige Ersatz (Beichte)."

 

Infinite Jest

Infinite Donald Trump

“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable world. It is a world in which the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering but to accommodate ourselves to the requirements of new technologies. We tell ourselves, of course, that such accommodations will lead to a better life, but that is only the rhetorical residue of a vanishing technocracy. We are a culture consuming itself with information, and many of us do not even wonder how to control the process. We proceed under the assumption that information is our friend, believing that cultures may suffer grievously from a lack of information, which, of course, they do. It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

 

19,788 views March 4, 2016

To truly honor Dr. Martin Luther King we must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America. Dr. King saw not only the need to end racism and segregation but to create an economy that works for all Americans. That was his courage.

Bernie Sanders published YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3-LJMV1b6w

 

YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2wtmfARUA

Mass Mind Brain Damage

Not just personal brain damage, not just one individual brain damage.

Brain damage of entire groups, mass mind brain damage. Mass man brain damage.

Reference:

  1. “The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” - Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto

  2. "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century" - Howard Bloom, New York City

 

In a searing exchange with Senator Mitch McConnell Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed the mental gymnastics at play as administration officials take a soft approach on Russia amid its ongoing war on Ukraine.

“Number one, who’s the aggressor and who’s the victim in the conflict?” asked McConnell.

“Russia is the aggressor,” Hegseth said, quietly.

“Which side do you want to win?” McConnell said.

But the defense secretary couldn’t provide a simple answer for that.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reddit Front Page post

https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1l02tvd/feigned_ignorance/

Simplistic title that mind-fucks Reddit society deeper into denial

  1. The ignorance crisis in May 2025 is not real. Reality itself. The Reddit posting title is claiming that the Ignorance problem is a hoax.

  2. Absence of sustained focus on Reddit front-page postings asserting how information warfare works, Peter Pomerantsev is actively avoided by Reddit society.

  3. Reddit society has the same focus and attention problems as what they are mocking. The two-word Twitter-style headline Tweet-thinking problem that is being mocked.

  4. A real identity real-photograph person is being attacked by no-identity Reddit society that cowers at the topics of Neil Postman and Peter Pomerantsev being taken seriously. Let Alone Carl Sagan's 1995 book on the topic of Reddit media.

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

Saturday, May 31, 2025

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

“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

Leadership of Nations / Leadership of Cults / Leadership of Religions / Leadership by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Front page of Reddit posting:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1kzapic/give_this_person_a_raise_immediately/

Reddit active measures: more mocking solves our USA Government White House Problems. A "Reddit win" of mocking, give them a raise for entertaining us.

Mocking is the White House, the "mock harder, hate harder" conditioned reactions is the Russian information warfare payloads. Everything is social media simulacra of anti-reality. Reddit society is not confronting the MAGA intellectual war, it is adopting it. Reddit society is attracted to the endless Surkovian mockery.

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Reddit Front Page posting:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1kz8c2c/stephen_miller_learns_what_the_constitution/

More mocking active measures today. Mocking that Stephen learns, educated, by Twitter. That this is another "Murdered Win", Reddit wins, we educated via mockery. Eating the Surkov Onion, over and over on Reddit.

These messages on Reddit are active measures to avoid and be repulsed by authentic learning, authentic teaching, and to simply engage in react mocking. Which is adopting MAGA Surkov values of total mockery nation / Kremlin and White House Surkovian mockery.

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

Real Men Admit they lost their hearts and minds to bullshit Russian memes and messages since March 2013.

Real People Admit that Russia defeated their nation with Surkov Unreality, Real People Admit Real.

Repeating 000003

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

Reddit front page posting

https://old.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1kz6xbs/once_a_dumbass_always_a_dumbass/

This active normalization messaging is that ONCE someone makes a mistake, they will ALWAYS make a mistake. Once someone forgets goodness, there is no point in reminding them. There is no point to education and teaching. This is mass dehumanization that people are worthless and to dismiss them. This is instructing Reddit society to abandon education, give up on America.

Reddit society promotes to front page that education and learning can not fix problems. This is "active measures" against the population to accept stupidly and ignorance as normal.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Friday, May 30, 2025

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

My Conspiracy Theory

is that humanity is attracted to fiction storytelling far more than science + truth. But since I don't use lies, deception, techniques of fiction storytelling that are copied from best-selling fiction, it gets avoided.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago

How many languages do you speak fluently?

I teach James Joyce. I teach Finnegans Wake.

I teach the entire Tower of Babel. !BabelTowerARG@lemm.ee

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

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