https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1q13bq4/shes_a_grifter/nx2op8a/
Front page of Reddit posting. Twitter screen shots, Elon Musk Twitter content on Reddit. Simulacra of “resisting” the promotion of Charlie Kirk and Erika.
Reddit audience is deeply attracted to the Bible mocking leadership that Turning Point Faith provides. Mocking Reddit audience follows Twitter mocking leadership signals, MAGA mocking leadership, Turning Point mocking leadership. It is all a pattern of following signals of mocking and dehumanization.
There is no demonstration on Reddit of self-awareness of being lead by the nose / leash lead, by Elon Musk Twitter media systems. All signs and behaviors indicate a mob mentality of thinking they have out-smarted the out-groups ( Twitter, Turning Point, Internet Research Agency seeding since March 2013 }… no invocation of { Media Ecology, Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan }. Despite the long-established Time Magazine just months ago re-asserting Neil Postman’s 1985 media ecology about addict self-awareness (Reddit high speed electric media audience). September 10, 2025: https://time.com/7313999/neil-postman-trump-prediction/ only 113 days ago! The “Mass Man” (group think, term from University of Toronto’s Marshall McLuhan) keeps jumping from mockery leading signal to the next signal without any self-awareness of compulsive following. Tree after tree can’t recognize the forest patterns of being lead by Putin’s Kremlin since March 2013 into total friendly-fire of Americans mocking Americans in feedback loops.
Note the Reddit account bio for this end-user. They claim to be against MAGA values, yet still fall right into the 5,000 simulacra patterns originating in November 2012. Americans mocking Americans, not calling for Bible literacy reforming (non-believer isn’t relevant, believer isn’t relevant, literacy of “1 John 3:17” and verse “1 John 4:20” intelligent reading is the concern). Not calling for Jen Senko’s 2015 / 2016 nonfiction film to address Fox News and Newsmax addictions. Not calling for organized rally points and prioritizing forest-level changes.
Instead, it is bark at Americans, bark within the simulacra systems as conditioned by Putin. Tree after tree, simulation of Twitter message after Twitter message in the Reddit audience. Following the hive mind flocking, not standing up for change towards goodness, following right into MAGA values / Putinism media ecology mindsets.
https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1q16708/is_he_comparing_himself_to_joe/nx3fm14/
Front page of Reddit posting of Twitter content. People flock to it on New Years Day to do the lowest-effort conditioned reaction to the Surkov student Kremlin media methods. December 31, 2014 New Years Eve described what we are experiencing now in USA January 1, 2026 New Years Day… Kremlin Russian methods. Surkov won. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam_curtis_on_the_contradictory_vaudeville_of_post-modern_politics.html
This whole posting is simulacra of resistance. Comments like this think they are out-smarting the name-calling of Trump “low I.Q.” “horce-face” (non-person) and other dog-whistle dehumanization… but they have all adopted it. It’s the most powerful system of control. Surkov student techniques have defeated the nation. All people are truly deeply concerned about is their attraction to insulting and mocking. They have no desire to end the mocking because it is the stimulation that Putin has fed the nation since March 2013 and they find it thrilling. It’s constantly exhausting translating all the nicknames and in-jokes and morphing Trump-speak MAGA-speak that Reddit society flocks to.
September 16, 2020 described it https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/fox-news-trump-language-stelter-hoax/616309/ - but it’s really been going on much much longer than year 2020 article in The Atlantic describes. It really all changed on Reddit in 2014, I telephoned the Pentagon in summer of 2015 to report the hive mind behaviors the IRA had conditioned. Monday August 17, 2015 (Biden/Obama) is when I reported the total mockery behaviors and deflection of nonfiction on Reddit “Mass Man” (University of Toronto Marshall McLuhan terminology): https://old.reddit.com/r/QAnonRussia/comments/p16nkm/i_reported_it_in_2015_under_bidenobama_at_the/
Top popular comment. Tiny-short think Tweet-length Musk messaging values. “She” choose to pick deporting people who she dislikes. Egoism, anti-Pluribus values. Now the hive mind of Reddit and fandom have adopted the Putin programmed / immigrant Elon Musk “woke mind virus” programming of praising and cheering on deportation, block-happy, deport-happy USA.
It’s all MAGA values all the time now. People hand-wave “both sides”, but do not in any way articulate Russian Information Warfare methods “Internet Research Agency” programming and Rupert Murdoch programming of audiences. Fiction vs. fiction is not “both sides”, it’s simulations of resistance. There is 99.999999999% in fiction addiction, there is no “two sides” (“bothsides-ism”) logic here, there is an abandonment of goodness in favor of punishing with deportation. Punishing with deportation is March 2013 onward MAGA values. Going after women is MAGA values.
Prizing deport as punishment is Putinsim since year 2013. “a child is compelled to give up its childhood and become an adult—to die, you might say, to its infantile personality and psyche and come back as a responsible adult. This is a fundamental psychological transformation that everyone has to undergo. We are in childhood in a condition of dependency under someone’s protection and supervision for some fourteen to twenty-one years—and if you’re going on for your Ph. D., this may continue to perhaps thirty-five. You are in no way a self-responsible, free agent, but an obedient dependent, expecting and receiving punishments and rewards. To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection.” - 1988, Power of Myth
This isn’t just any simulation here. Twitter messages are programming the Reddit audience to prize hate. That’s hard-core MAGA year 2013 programming for the Internet Research Agency that keeps echoing / repeating / retweeting over and over in loops! People are behaving just like MAGA in January 2026, programmed to prize hate and find joy in the suffering of other people. This is hard-core mind-fuck programming, the deepest year renewal symbolism to hate harder USA.
Machine message programming of audiences on Reddit touch devices. That’s the ARG here, hate humans, love Twitter power to express hate at high speed instant light-speeds. OPERA_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No 91,862,547 views August 29, 2013
Putin has EVERYONE, ALL 100% of We The People, in these hate vs. hate, hate for hate, feedback loops.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1q3tuyb/this_is_america_with_our_new_oil/nxn9lt6/
I honestly just can’t take this any more. Front page of Reddit. People are humor-washing, entertainment-washing, artificial intelligence praising, dreaming they could tweak him fatter in the AI video.
The experience of being media awake to Neil Postman’s 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves To Death” and the rise of MAGA. People are so attracted to MAGA images. The 2025 South Park entertainment of MAGA, this video. It isn’t even just one person, Trump.
Neil Postman already wrote the book, and I did everything speaking in the streets that this was Trump’s power. And Time magazine published it last fall too, and people just keep feeding the desires for more and more fiction content. Fiction of watching White House dance. Trump shares these fiction videos himself. Because he knows mobs of Reddit and Twitter will rush to it and drown out Neil Postman.
What really bothers me now is that the bar is so low, the slightest non-Trump leader will be ruled. And the Pluribus hive mind concept will never have taken off. Carl Sagan’s 1995 book really was right. And my hopes (the Elvis song in Pluribus trailer of hope) is gone. Social media addictions, what Neil Postman described, created this Trump invading nations. People prize mocking at him as fat. that’s it. Like they prize mocking people as dumb and stupid. It’s not teaching. And when you promote teaching, as Malala did back in year 2012 and year 2013, it gets ignored.
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"The plain lesson is that study and learning — not just of science, but of anything — are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 59
This was correct in year 1995, and we are living in the outcomes of that. And Carl Sagan people listened to, but still… the Apple iPhone in year 2007 set prizing of tiny-short dancing Trump, or dancing whoever is next, entertainment.
Tiny-shirt Twitter-length thinking. Twitter-bird repeating, parroting, of Russian information warfare talking points. Blame millions of USA people, do everything and anything to not blame Kremlin information warfare. Never ever ever mention this book author’s name on Reddit, and his 3 books since year 2014.
- “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
Russia has gotten deep into the minds with entertainment. Not just voting days, but every upvote and retweet.
https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1q3yjp2/his_past_has_shown_exactly_that/nxoy7n2/
Reddit audiences will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING but turn to Neil Postman’s 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves To Death” and focus on it every until it is memorized or what. And LOOK AT REDDIT through the Neil Postman 1985 perspective and Brave New World 1930’s perspective. And sober up from the meme-think garbage learning. Anti-learning. People are not resisting it, they are incredibly attracted to Fox News HDTV and White House Antics to mock and talk about. It is exactly what Postman was saying about second term President in year 1985!!!
Reddit Complicit 2026
<img width=“982” height=“238” alt=“image” src=“https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/631575e7-1f4c-40df-82f4-e65cf79bee3b” /> Reddit end-user account since: June 14, 2011. Every single Reddit end-user, silent and lurking or posting, who does not create an account on Bluesky and Reddit and Lemmy and Mastodon and promote this September 9, 2014 article https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/russia-putin-revolutionizing-information-warfare/379880/ is complicit and cheering on the “LOL cow milking” amusements of { MAGA / Trump / Putin / GOP / Republicans }. Russia has mind-fucked the USA since March 2013 and people are not mounting a rescue operation. Instead, they go to Russia infiltrated Reddit and blame other Americans and will not stand up to Putin / Kremlin / Russia in an information war. Reddit is “owned” by Putin fanatics. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301643
Lives were killed by COVID-2019 - and people can’t be bothered to link to warnings of measles and COVID spreading on Twitter and Reddit by Internet Research Agency, evidence going back to year 2014! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192 Johns Hopkins University and George Washing fucking founding father University is not good enough for people to repeat and repeat. Except white men private sex “Epstein” “PizzaGate” “QAnon” “GamerGate” shit gets repeated all the time! Why will people on Reddit not repeat George Washington University August 24, 2018? No defense against the mind-washing of MAGA / rural less-educated USA people! The Moscow city slicker and New York City slicker have defeated the farmers and heartland of USA, and people on Reddit are complicit for not asserting and defending with intellectual messaging every hour of every day until the egomania of the White House and rural population MAGA is resolved! Why is Dr. Bandy X Lee not named / name-dropped MORE THAN EPSTEIN on REDDIT!? Such fucking god-damn avoidance of civic duty and Patriotism… PUTIN FUCKING WON RURAL POPULATION HEARTS AND MINDS, RESCUE THEM WITH EDUCATION AND TEACHING! GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY!! LISTEN!!!
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Meme addicts… cowering behind intimate touch Apple iPhone and iPad screens avoiding asserting and mounting nonfiction rescue operations of mind-fucked MAGA! Surkov won! Putin won, since March 2013!
Screaming at the USA press instead of using Reddit social media systems to fight back against the Internet Research Agency that has mind-fucked the rural population of the USA who is less-literate on media ecology of New York City / Manhattan professor Neil Postman! Rural people were mind-fucked by Moscow, Saint Pete IRA! Nobody on Reddit will discuss it and mount a rescue operation of MAGA Americans! People just mock and screen a “The Press” instead of posting facts and repeating news on Reddit systems.
June 2, year 2014.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
Reddit addicts to screaming at the press won’t bother to use Google Search and fucking rescue Americans from Putin’s military mind-fucking of our rural farmers in the heartland! OPERA_A I grew up in Fort Wayne Indiana, I went to public high school. This singer from Indiana speaks the education crisis we have, that Putin / Kremlin / Surkov mind-fucked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joNzRzZhR2Y Take me to The Promised Land in Indiana, John! 9,628,150 views October 5, 2009 - I saw John in concert back in high school. And I shared this YouTube link during the Arab Spring to North Africa! I think about my grandpa! He was a farmer in Columbus, Ohio! Killed himself, suicide over his farm! Produce farmers.
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1q4u5mm/we_are_looking_more_like_russia_every_day/nxv5q0a/
Simualcra of resistance. “this shit is not ok”, tiny-short messages. Elon Musk tweet-thinking patterns in the minds. Russia is in the front page of Reddit posting today. But nobody on Reddit wants to seriously an actually address the invasion of Reddit by Russia. Because serious discussions aren’t tiny-short messages of a few words. Americans will not put down the toys and amusements and games… and stand up to Putin / Kremlin / Russia in an information war. Reddit is “owned” by Putin fanatics. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301643
https://old.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1q4wzzk/top_g_heading_for_greenland/nxvrctg/
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A Twitter (Elon Musk) screenshot on Reddit
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Dumb shit vs. dumb shit
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Reddit audience eats this shit up. EVERY TIME from MAGA shit.
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Thrilled at how amusing it is to watch their nation be dumb and stupid
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Reddit meme fandom (Twitter message fandom too) of how glorious it is that the White House provides such mockery. “associated with WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) is Linda McMahon, who became the U.S. Secretary of Education in March 2025 under President Trump, bringing her business background (including leading WWE) into the role, aligning with a focus on school choice and parental rights in education.”
“For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111
Sounds-good long form Reddit.But witness: no book quotes, no author names, no book titles, no links. Just “engagement” commenting to get everyone on different pages. Avoiding Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, anything and everything about Russia’s Internet Research Agency since year 2013.
“The media”, Reddit media empire is over two decades old. This is a virgin Reddit account doing everything it can to say "The Media’, but not here in a mocking American echo-chamber of out-group hate. Don’t rescue MAGA! Just mock MAGA and mock USA media systems, but don’t quote an article from the BBC about Reddit! Don’t escape the screen simulation / simualcra Putin put everyone into on Reddit!
A Reddit message mocking “real”, and “reality” and “The Real People” on a Reddit servers full of non-identity Russians since March 2013. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301643
It works because Reddit users refuse to discuss details and facts about Russian information warfare. Kremlin techniques and methods of media systems / information systems warfare.
“Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated.” - December 11, 2020 - “The Heritage Foundation” https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/putin-winning-russias-hybrid-war-against-america (Before January 6, 2021 - by weeks. QAnon was Russian Hybrid warfare, QAnon flags on January 6 https://old.reddit.com/r/QAnonRussia/ QAnon-Russia subreddit)
Reddit is a hate-training ground. Russia owns Reddit hearts and minds since March 2013. Reddit users can not discuss the Internet Research Agency. Putin won, Surkov won. People hate Texans instead of screaming about Surkov and Putin in the streets, they are saying “I will end you” to Americans. Instead of rescuing people in USA with / and teaching Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Atlanta USA, people behave like Russians against “Ukraine is Nazi Germany” mind-fucked bu Internet Research Agency / Russia Today HDTV networks / etc. Reddit society will not discuss nonfiction learning. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8035579.Peter_Pomerantsev
And on Reddit avoided, where I personally created this teaching community to educate Reddit audiences / Reddit USA people what is happening. https://old.reddit.com/r/QAnonRussia and https://old.reddit.com/r/CounterSurkov (created February 17, 2025) fact-based reality-based real world education and learning about how Russia mind-fucked USA since March 2013 using the Internet Research Agency.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1q5gz5k/he_makes_squatters_regret_their_choice/nxzuxwi/
Front page of Reddit. Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, a real estate investor, property investor. This is propaganda on Reddit to cheer on the wealthy 1% who own everything in USA and to imprison people who need a bed to sleep in in USA so that more Trump golf courses and Trump hotels and Trump need to take over Canada and Greenland because real estate profits are more important than human beings needing food. Stealing food from homeless people, poisoning their home life, intimidating them with guns and weapons. MAGA NRA values, Russian NRA values. Reddit users / Reddit audience cheers on the lords of property owners that all vote for and worship Rupert Murdoch, Trump, Bill Gates landowner.
This is what the Internet Research Agency has done to the mindsets of the nation since March 2013. Praising kings of land, like Putin taking over Ukraine land because Russia’s vast amounts of land are never enough! All housing and land must pay taxes to Trump and Putin in the world. Reddit thinks this is awesome because it’s clever, and Trump is clever and Putin is clever.
A police-cop or I.C.E. or landlord-raider of the homeless is cheered on by Reddit audiences. ICE raids are cool awesome content for meme addicts on their intimate touch iPhone and iPad to cheer on the wealth lords of USA year 2026! Poor troubled people, fuck the poor, cheer on the super-rich people who own thousands of houses for money-making off people they pay to raid like ICE raids. Because this guy is so clever with the eating of all the food, “hate thy neighbor” like Trump is organizing hate mobs against Canada. Reddit users prize video and clever over all else. Just like was described in year 1951, not very long after year 1944. Second Bill of Rights January 1944, mocked, because that isn’t clever live video for meme addicts on Reddit!
- “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
https://old.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1q5n8n4/whats_wrong_with_him/ny14usk/
Reddit audiences, the intimate touch device iPhone / iPad / Android users of Reddit, they love that they (a crowd of cloud computing) can mock President Tony Clifton over and over. SNL techniques of NYC home town of Donald Trump and his father. Audiences are incredibly engaged with the mind-blowing Surkov student adaptations of Tony Clifton performances. And not just one single actor plays Clifton, as tradition goes, but DJT is by far the most entertaining to the mindsets and attractions of Reddit hate and Reddit mocking fandoms.
ANYTHING and EVERYTHING on Reddit comment section to avoid naming “Internet Research Agency” and putting two and two together about Putin and Trump meeting in Alaska in the summer of year 2025. And Trump’s November 8, 2013 trip to Moscow, Russia LONG BEFORE the 2016 voting day in November 2016. People comment tiny-short incredibly popular dumb messaging on Reddit, and audiences eat it up. ANYTHING to avoid nonfiction study of factual real information and timelines.
This commenting you see all over Reddit isn’t resisting, it is being right in the IRA simulation! It is being a tool of the Kremlin to not focus and organize. Anti-Wiki anti-FAQ anti quoting from books. Just low-effort Twitter-length garbage into minds, garbage out of minds on Reddit.
Yes. This is correct. Needs links off-Reddit, needs quotes from books, need author names. But it is correct. Putin and Trump are not { idiot, dumb, moron, stupid, baby, child, toddler } - they have out-smarted the entire Reddit community. I created this subreddit to educate: April 29, 2019 https://old.reddit.com/r/WhiteHouseSurkovMedia
Headline on Reddit: “things are getting serious”. They have been serious crisis since June 16, 2015 - people are attracted to the chaos and self-harm of Trump. What’s serious is that We The People on social media won’t turn to nonfiction teaching and nonfiction education to address the addictions to fiction and drama content on meme sites.
https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1q77svm/abolish_the_rogue_agency_ice_now/nyderuk/
“Roasted by Reality”, Reddit prizing Elon Musk content to mock back. This is eating right out of the hands of Twitter owner Musk with a low-effort junk information Twitter message. Everything Carl Sagan said i 1995 book is in this Twitter message on front page top of /r/All Reddit. This is low-effort “we win, Reddit!” ignorance.
Russia and the Menace of Unreality
How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
Peter Pomerantsev
September 9 2014, 3:42 PM ET
“If previous authoritarian regimes were three parts violence and one part propaganda,” argues Igor Yakovenko, a professor of journalism at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, “this one is virtually all propaganda and relatively little violence. Putin only needs to make a few arrests—and then amplify the message through his total control of television.”
Translated from 2013 Russia to USA 2025: I.C.E. raids are very little violence and a lot of showboating. A lot of Reddit front-page I.C.E. raids for visual meme addicts / meme consumers. Simple-think logic polarity minds. Snark bout “reality” on the audience commenting mind, but no recognition that Kremlin and White House has the Reddit total control of media amplifiers. Reddit is amplifying media from all over the Internet. Eating the onions that Trump and Musk is dementia stupid dumb idiot, Reddit society unable to engage and comprehend and understand off-Reddit… September 9, 2014: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/russia-putin-revolutionizing-information-warfare/379880/ - joking to “imagine” / dream up fiction of anti-reality, dreamland. Anything to avoid learning / grasping nonfiction Russian information warfare history and techniques.
Peter Pomerantsev books on paper since year 2014, NOBODY on Reddit quoting nonfiction books!!!
https://old.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1q77svm/abolish_the_rogue_agency_ice_now/nydfncm/
Exactly the fucking god damn problem. Hate. Poisons your own mind. Just look at that mind pattern of tiny-short message. This is doing exactly what the billionaire machines delivering the Elon Musk message intend. Hate Reddit vs. Hate Twitter. Twitter vs. Reddit hate training ground. Every day, brains blown into hate mindsets by high speed message systems. “Clever comeback” extreme low-effort hate.
- “For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
The problem that people can not see, that Barack Obama is pointing out in this posted video, is that they are normalizing everything. Because Trump is entertainment. The White House MAGA is now a comedy venue for Reddit meme addicts. And with Obama, before the Internet Research Agency programming of the audience hive mind, it was not like this. It happened one time before, with a second-term POTUS year 1985:
- “For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111