“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 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.
lol, Trump has no idea how album cycles work
What do you personally know about media ecology from New York University Neil Postman, the home town of Donald Trump? Postman’s 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves To Death” that Donald Trump is a master of?
Donald Trump is a master of electric media systems, Lemmy, Truth Social, Reddit, Bluesky - he absolutely knows how to adopt Surkov / Surkovian media tactics against We The People to induce meme stupor reactions.
“If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
“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
Howard Bloom in New York City, Donald Trump’s home town, was a music industry / album promoter for Billy Joel, Styx, Prince, worked with Michael Jackson. Have you studied what he says about exploiting the population? Have you studied New Yorker Edward Bernays and Dr. Abraham Brill?
“Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order—these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.” ― Howard Bloom, The Lucifer Principle : A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Donald Trump knows how to use Truth Social in 2025 better than anyone I have seen. He is a master of inducing compulsive reactions in Lemmy / Reddit / Bluesky audiences. I can’t repeat it enough! The Surkov / Surkovian governing works every time on May 2025 social machine users.
“The display, which was called ‘Can Democracy Survive the Internet?’ was dedicated to a ‘global election management’ company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,000 data points on every American voter online: what you liked and what you shared on social media; how and where you shopped; who your friends were… They claimed to be able to take this imprint of your online self, use it to understand your deepest drives and desires, and then draw on that analysis to change your voting behaviour. The boast seemed to be backed up by success: Cambridge Analytica had worked on the victorious American presidential campaign of Donald Trump; it had also run successful campaigns for US Senator Ted Cruz (twice); and others all across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019
Have you considered the forest for the trees? Not just the “trees” of music industry album cycles, but mass media systems of Lemmy, Reddit, Truth Social, Fox News HDTV, NFL sports, TikTok, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc. information cycles of “going viral”, the “Elon Musk mind virus” billionaire cycles and how they work?
Taylor Swift was a target during the 2024 election “September 15, 2024 — Former President Donald Trump declared “I hate Taylor Swift!” in a Truth Social post Sunday, days after she endorsed Kamala Harris.” - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-says-i-hate-taylor-swift/
Taylor Swift was frequently making appearances at NFL football game and getting huge attention of negging by social media users. It is no longer football season in the United States of America in May 2025 (today). “Swift made her first appearance at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023, watching them defeat the Chicago Bears from the Kelce family’s private suite.” - https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/every-time-taylor-swift-attended-one-of-travis-kelces-nfl-games/
In terms of global media ecology, The World Stage of popualrity, Donald Trump today is going after multiple media outlets and leaders. This is much larger than the NFL football season or music industry album cycles of Taylor Swift.
Donald Trump Warns Bruce Springsteen: “He Ought to Keep His Mouth Shut Until He’s Back Into the Country” - https://consequence.net/2025/05/trump-warns-springsteen-keep-mouth-shut/