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#RickRoderick #Duke #DukeUniversity /\

Reddit is not RESISTING TRUMP AND MUSK, Reddit is a SIMULATION!

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February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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#TaylorSwift

"has learned to live and create herself on the curve of the postmodern by making it her goal to be more popular than popular; by having her popularity the topic of popularity. " #Baudrillard calls the hyperreal – to stay on this curve of popularity." - #RickRoderick 1993, on #Madonna
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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October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"The battlelines may be between anonymous forces that have been unleashed by technology that grew out of capital, that will be controlled in the hands of not many people" - #RickRoderick #DukeUniversity year 1993
October 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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#FWakeRoundSparrow

Yes, for the record, I do contemplate if back in December 2015 if I would have been better off #begging on Twitter that I would pay $13.13 for every #Retweet - $180,000 total - (13 per hour cut) on the topic of #PeterPomerantsev 2014 #RickRoderick 1993

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July 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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"The spectacle of it. I mean, when humans were less important than #God we could understand because he built everything. When we are less important than a #Nintendo we get confused. That’s when we start thinking that we are under siege. " - #Texan #RickRoderick 1993, Duke University
July 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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"Tarski" ... "he puts “Snow is white” in quotation marks – is true, if and only if snow is white. I don’t expect anybody in the audience to gasp, if you follow me. This isn’t a theory of truth; this is the #deflationary remark about how we use the word “true”, you follow me? " - #RickRoderick 1993
July 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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By not studying #MarshallMcLuhan #NeilPostman #HowardBloom #JosephCampbell #BillMoyers #RickRoderick #JamesJoyce numerous other teachers / professors. By leaving it up to predators: #EdwardBernays students + #SurkovStudents - this is what you get - current USA.

Mass Man / Mob Mentality ignorance.
Trump mob mentality: A charismatic leader with an armed following and a Capitol target
When someone as powerful as the president tells a large group of his supporters to 'fight like hell,' they will listen to him and feed off each other.
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July 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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TO:: @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social

Are you #Ignorant of religions and #Televangelism when you describe minutes changes of television broadcasts? Have you not studied #ComparativeMythology of televised #Levant religions in USA Christianity year 2020 vs. Russia #Surkov ? #RickRoderick edu?
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July 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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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" - #RickRoderick 1993 #BecomeTotalitarian

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304 Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man (1993) - Rick Roderick
Last updated: 27 March 2023 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 4: Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man.avi Transcript: Okay, this is the fourth lecture and we are going to pick things up a littl...
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July 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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::: Year 1993
::: Duke University #DukeUniversity #DukeU
::: Year 1993

#SelfUnderSiege /\ #Texan #RickRoderick #ProfessorRickRoderick

Texan Rick Roderick, Professor Duke University
June 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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#WhenAge24 ++
#FWakeWhenAge ++

When I was age 24, #RickRoderick gave a lecture, recorded on videotape in 1993. "The Self Under Siege" lecture. 7 hours long, which he refined over several years in his classrooms at #DukeUniversity

Previously #WhenAge18 #PowerOfMyth filmed by #GeorgeLucas I knew
June 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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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#MassDehumanizationPopular "Dehumanization is Popular"
#TrendingTowardsMachines
#PopularityItself
#FWakeGenZ #FWakePopularity #ToxicPopularity

#TheHyperRealPresident "Hyper Real President" defined by #DukeUniversity #RickRoderick year 1993

"Donald Trump's Gen Z popularity plunges" #FWakeNewsWeek
Donald Trump's Gen Z popularity plunges
A poll shows the president's net favorable rating among those aged 18-29 has fallen dramatically in the past three months.
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February 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"I think it's a common sense issue, really."

have you ever studied Rick Roderick's teachings from Duke University about declaring big complex topics of humanity coming together as "common sense", simple and trivial?

#RickRoderick #DukeUniversity
They want the truth about the truth about the truth and all the way down, interminably. Vertigo. That’s the sense you get looking down that chain of bizarre stories. And I think that… the way people deal with this is interesting. They deal with it as a form of complexity, a word I have used probably too many times. It makes the people caught in this cusp between an old world and an old paradigm that is dying and a new one that cannot really yet be born. And we find ourselves in that space. And it draws us to people like Ross Perot who say “It’s just that simple… it’s just that simple… it’s just that simple”. That’s the most powerful political rhetoric in a world with a postmodern trajectory. God, how we would love it if someone could tell us anything was “just that simple”, and then of course when you see a pie chart you go “Oh, a pie chart…”. I mean, it has more religious meaning now than a crucifix to see a pie chart. I mean, because…. why is that so popular? Because it reduces complexity. The complexity is very real but his little soundbites, his little conversations with Larry King help to reduce that complexity and they put another message in there: “Now I know it’s real complicated but we can fix it, Americans have always fixed it and we can fix it”. Well, if Baudrillard’s right we have fixed it alright. We have fixed it all the way up and down.
February 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#FWakeNintendo #FWakeMario #FWakeRickRoderick

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

#MachineHearts #MachineMinds #FWakeMachineLike #MachineLike

1993 lecture by #Texan #Texas #DukeUniversity professor
January 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Beyond Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman in media ecology, I've also been trying to teach #RickRoderick 's 1990's lectures.

I encourage you to view the entire 8 hour lecture a few times spread apart a week or so, but at least 45 minutes on this one from 1993. It puts into perspective, his predicts.
308 Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies (Rick Roderick)
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January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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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

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January 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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"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." - #RickRoderick 1993

In 1993 it was way behind, 2013 Russia advanced
November 6, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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"ran a subpar campaign" - November 5, 2024. USA voters: we will vote for a dictator if they run a more entertaining campaign!

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"In fact, given this postmodern world any one of the four could emerge with the biggest one fourth depending on how they ran their campaign." - #RickRoderick 1993
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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November 5, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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#TeachTheTeachers #SurkovUnreality101 "Surkov Unreality 101"

Surkov unreality often involves patterns of truth and lies. #RickRoderick in his 1993 "Self Under Siege" lecture used Fox Entertainment network as an example, citing "COPS" show.

#HyperRealityIntoxication //\\
"Hyperreality of course affects us across many different, ah, spectrums. And it’s built on the real. It is not as though the hyperreal could get by without injections of reality in it. It requires – and this is not a principle from Baudrillard but one that I have realised from watching a lot of television – you have to have injections of reality in order to keep the images afloat, occasionally. In fact one of the new, ah, strategies adopted by television – and it serves two functions, one is a cost function – are these reality shows. They have realised that we have become, as it were, too intoxicated with hyperreality. With, you know, Kojak and Supercops and so on, so now we just have shows like “COPS“, where you just go to Fort Worth and just film a bunch of cops being cops. That serves a good intelligent economic interest because you don’t pay cops much just for being cops. It’s not that lucrative, and it injects… well is it reality? Well it is compared only to this scale of hyperreality and only under the sign of being whatever can be simulated." - Rick Roderick, 1993
November 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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"That is the same thing."

No they aren't, that's false. That's deflationary.

"This isn’t a theory of truth; this is the deflationary remark about how we use the word “true”, you follow me?" - #RickRoderick
September 29, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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#RickRoderick in 1993 lecture pretty much put into 7 hours the problem of 2024. It's only in English, it's on a poor VHS recording. But we could re-make that lecture and produce it in multiple languages. #DearNATO and #DearPentagon can do so. And Carl Sagan's final few books before his death left us
August 29, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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#AboutWakeIndra

I should probably say this out loud: I personally think #RickRoderick 1993 + the work of Jean Baudrillard on HyperReality + Adan Curtis on Hypernormalization all fall short in not bring in McLuhan's #WarPeaceGlobalVillage + Joseph Campbell's lifetime of work. Church WAS HyperReal
June 12, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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#WakeIndra

"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." - #RickRoderick 1993
June 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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#DearSurkov

#SpyWhoLovedUs #MonoMythBackfire

#RickRoderick && #Surkov && #NeilPostman

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May 23, 2024 at 5:11 PM