Almost exactly four years later, on November 12th, 2016, Mr. Rykov explained what happened next in a pair of Facebook posts. In the first post, Rykov explained how he first made contact with Trump
The plan that Russian and Trump agreed to was to create 5,000 anti-reality falsehood leadership message patterns that people compulsively consume, all directing people into adoring liars as leaders. Originated in November 2012.
We knew this theory was possible back in early 1990’s: “In any case, ah, 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 (1993), I am really not. 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.” - Duke University, Rick Roderick, 1993 - https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/
[McLuhan] Yes. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man. By the way, one of the big parts of the loss of identity is nostalgia. So there are revivals in every phase of life today. Revivals of clothing, of dances, of music, of shows, of everything. We live by the revival. It tells us who we are or were.
[McManus] Do you feel that the fact that you and I have enjoyed the rewards of literacy, that we are more protected against television than a child?
[McLuhan] Yes, I think you get a certain immunity, just as you get a certain immunity from booze by literacy. The literate man can carry his liquor; the tribal man cannot. That is why in the Moslem world or in the native world is booze is impossible; it is the demon rum. However, literacy also makes us very accessible to ideas and propaganda. The literate man is the natural sucker for propaganda. You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets but you cannot sell him ideas. Therefore, propaganda is our Achilles’ heel. It is our weak point. We will buy anything if it fairly hard sell to it.
repeating:
[McLuhan] Yes. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man. By the way, one of the big parts of the loss of identity is nostalgia. So there are revivals in every phase of life today. Revivals of clothing, of dances, of music, of shows, of everything. We live by the revival. It tells us who we are or were.
That’s the whole basis of “great again”, electing a 78 year old geriatric as leadership. “Make America Old 78 years again”, loss of identity to Twitter and then feed nostalgia fiction of a fantasy Twitter reality of America 1950’s that never existed.
Yha we know what the Drawing Board turned out to be, Russia and Cambridge Analytica:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/
The plan that Russian and Trump agreed to was to create 5,000 anti-reality falsehood leadership message patterns that people compulsively consume, all directing people into adoring liars as leaders. Originated in November 2012.
We knew this theory was possible back in early 1990’s: “In any case, ah, 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 (1993), I am really not. 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.” - Duke University, Rick Roderick, 1993 - https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/
Donald Trump, Russia / Kremlin, and Cambridge Analytica in November 2012 cracked the equations that Marshall McLuhan had described.
https://marshall-mcluhan-speaks.com/interviews/violence-as-a-quest-for-identity
[McManus] So that’s what this is doing to me?
[McLuhan] Yes. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man. By the way, one of the big parts of the loss of identity is nostalgia. So there are revivals in every phase of life today. Revivals of clothing, of dances, of music, of shows, of everything. We live by the revival. It tells us who we are or were.
[McManus] Do you feel that the fact that you and I have enjoyed the rewards of literacy, that we are more protected against television than a child?
[McLuhan] Yes, I think you get a certain immunity, just as you get a certain immunity from booze by literacy. The literate man can carry his liquor; the tribal man cannot. That is why in the Moslem world or in the native world is booze is impossible; it is the demon rum. However, literacy also makes us very accessible to ideas and propaganda. The literate man is the natural sucker for propaganda. You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets but you cannot sell him ideas. Therefore, propaganda is our Achilles’ heel. It is our weak point. We will buy anything if it fairly hard sell to it.
repeating:
[McLuhan] Yes. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man. By the way, one of the big parts of the loss of identity is nostalgia. So there are revivals in every phase of life today. Revivals of clothing, of dances, of music, of shows, of everything. We live by the revival. It tells us who we are or were.
That’s the whole basis of “great again”, electing a 78 year old geriatric as leadership. “Make America Old 78 years again”, loss of identity to Twitter and then feed nostalgia fiction of a fantasy Twitter reality of America 1950’s that never existed.