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#CounterSurkovActTwo "Counter Surkov Act Two"

Donald Trump is Infinite Jest V. Donald Trump is a meme. Donald Trump is a joke upon humanity.

Compulsive mocking and total mockery USA.

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And I also think that we have to, ah, be wary of the… overquick reduction of complexity. If some of this lecture has seemed a little weird or to go a little too far, it’s because I don’t want to reduce quite all of this to slogans. On the other hand, I don’t want it to not be funny, because part of the postmodern trajectory itself is a rather humorous joke on the human race which laboured for millennia to reduce working hours in order to produce leisure so we could enjoy this very leisure that then turns in a kind of vengeful act against us absorbing our leisure time, which was to be our living time, into time now spent in the service of what can only be called this inhuman spectacle. I mean, it’s a very bizarre and twisted fate to which postmodernity has led us. So I would be wary of simple answers to this.
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#FWakeDoNotCare /\
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"The title itself indicates it: “The World Well Lost”; Rorty’s view is that any problem that has been around for 2500 years for which we still don’t have a solution, the right response by the contemporary philosopher is “I don’t care”. And the charm of Rorty’s answer is it’s so American. It’s deeply rooted in our culture, in both the anti-intellectualism of our culture, in our fear of eggheads and so on, and so in that sense it has a double significance." - Rick Roderick, 1993, Duke University
June 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#FWakeARGclip
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#FWakeDetached /\ #FWakeSpectators

#FWakeCitizens /\ #CitizensDetached ++ #PoliticsSpectators ++

Citizens began to detached themselves from their own lives and become spectators (to images).

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May 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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1993: "The Struggle In the Future may be to Maintain the Real" - 1993, #Texan

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May 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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"any intellect that powerful has a tendency to become totalitarian. This is the fundamental problem and nowhere would that be more evident than in the experience of the Germans who were, you know, great at their technology" #FWakeRickRoderick #BecomeTotalitarian #RRQ06
304 Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man (1993) - Rick Roderick
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May 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#FWakePolitical #FWakeKnowledge
#FWakeJamesJoyce /\ #FWakeFoucault
#FWakePower #FWakeHumanPower /\
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Why All Knowledge is Political | Foucault and Joyce on Power and Epistemology

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Why All Knowledge is Political | Foucault and Joyce on Power and Epistemology
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May 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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#FWakeRickRoderick #RickRoderick #SelfUnderSiege /\

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The Hyper-Real Revolution: Why Real Experiences Are Becoming Obsolete - Rick Roderick
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April 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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"a phenomenon never known in polling which is the phenomenon of not liking a person, but of liking liking a person. This is a sign you are dealing with the hyperreal. Let me go over that again: Reagan’s popularity was popular." - #FWakeRickRoderick Duke University, 1993
March 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Rick Roderick, 1993, Duke University

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February 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"I think it’s partly due to this thing I call banalisation, and it’s partly due to the refusal and the fear of dealing with complexity. Much easier to be a cynic than to deal with complexity. Better to say everything is bullshit than to try to look into enou" #FWakeRickRoderick 1993, #DukeUniversity
304 Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man (1993) - Rick Roderick
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February 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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#FWakeRickRoderick 1993 : "it’s the spectacle of the prison more than the prison that frightens us now. In other words it’s rap music with its “I am going to kill you” stuff that’s really scares you. You very seldom ever see a black person, we mostly stay away from them, so don’t see many of them."
February 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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::: #TheHyperRealPresident "Hyper Real President"

#FWakeRickRoderick 1993, Duke University lecture prediction theory of technology

#RickRoderickWasRight !!!
“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, I am really not (1993). 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.” Texan Rick Roderick, Duke University 1993 prediction, “Self Under Siege”
February 7, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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"the current political structures are way behind this curve. They don’t understand it well at all in spite of all the talk about “The Selling of the President“. That’s very old fashioned, we all have lived with advertising for years. What we haven’t lived with are ads..." - 1993 #FWakeRickRoderick
February 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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#LikingLike "Liking Like" ++ #OperasNamedIrregular

::::: Liking Like
#PopularityPopular ++

#PopularityItself "Popularity Itself" #FWakeAttractedBy
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Rick Roderick, Duke University year 1993 "Self Under Siege"
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February 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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++++ #TheHyperRealPresident "The Hyper-Real President"

"here we get the phenomenon of Reagan, the hyperreal president. More real than real." - Rick Roderick
Duke University Professor
Year 1993

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308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993) - Rick Roderick
Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Bau...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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#FWakeRickRoderick 1993: "here we get the phenomenon of Reagan, the hyperreal president. More real than real. I mean he’s better at being Harry Truman than Harry Truman. I mean, the distinction about what he is is lost in the hyperreality of his smile, which like the Cheshire Cat’s" #FWakeCat
308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993) - Rick Roderick
Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Bau...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#FWakeWhyAreYou ? "FWake Why Are You?

#FWakeRickRoderick : "I asked one of my children “Why are you yelling at a machine?” when he began to bang his Nintendo, and he looked at me as though I were a being from another world." #FWakeAnotherWorld
#FWakeWhyAreYouYelling ?
308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993) - Rick Roderick
Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Bau...
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February 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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"make love to your ego ideal thus making it pointless to, ah, search out all the Freudian implications. You could just pick your ego ideal, punch it into the laser beam program, slip into the virtual reality suit" - Duke University #FWakeRickRoderick 1993

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308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993) - Rick Roderick
Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Bau...
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February 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#JurassicPark #FWakeRickRoderick

RE: "he has just learned that if you hold completely still a tyrannosaurus rex cannot see you"

1993 Rick Roderick, Texan Duke University

#RealityBlueSky - #SurkovWonSince2013
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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#FWakeNintendo #FWakeMario #FWakeRickRoderick

#FWakeYear1993 #RickRoderick #Nintendo #SuperMario #SuperMarioBros
#MarioBros #Morality #WhoTeachesMorality ? "Who Teaches Morality?"

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1993 lecture by #Texan #Texas #DukeUniversity professor
January 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"In other words it’s rap music with its “I am going to kill you” stuff that’s really scares you." - Rick Roderick, 1993 #FWakeRickRoderick

#FWakeMusicianHate #FWakeHateAsIdentity #LanguageBigotry /\
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308 Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies (1993) - Rick Roderick
Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Baudrillard, a French social theorist. Actually that now is a misnomer since one of Baudrillard's theses is the disappearance of the
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January 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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"has been to, sort of, give up before the overpowering forces of technology in a more abject surrender than any that was ever called for in religion. I mean, to just abjectly surrender before the powers of technology" #FWakeRickRoderick 1993
#ForcesOfTechnology
January 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#TechnologicalSiege #FWakeRickRoderick

"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, 1993
January 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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"At some point in the development of technology, human beings ceased to be the reason of things and things took on their own reasons… technological things." - #RickRoderick 1993, Duke University

#FWakeTechnopoly /\ #FWakeRickRoderick
#FWakeHumanBeing /\
January 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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#RickRoderickWasRight #FWakeRickRoderick /\
#FUBAR1801 #FWake20250121

Lots of conversations pointing to topics Rick Roderick was predicting about technology itself.

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