Augmenting Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev has the real-world experience in 2010 Russia with HDTV media generation for the Kremlin.

very muhy WORK IN PROGRESS, with brain-damaged keyboarding

What was I doing in 2010? I predicted the Arab Spring in December 2009 based on Marshall McLuhan's book "War and Peace in the Global Village', my own lifetime of intuitive hands-on social media  perspective since age 13 in 1983, autism off-axis interpretation of how people deal with fact and truth, a key position at a key time, 1997 - working for Paul Allen Group - the year when Bill Gates and Paul Allen . By March 2010 I was rather certain of my Arab Spring prediction based on Austin SXSW and  observations about social change in Austin - that I was  starting to narrow down where it would start and the role women were playing in the revolution.

Back in 2010 I did not discover Rick Roderick's full 1993 lectures, which in 2015 became a huge thing for me. His "Self Under Siege" helped me regain perspective on technology itself... and Rick Roerick did this theory COMPLETELY avoiding Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Joseph Campbell (all 3 professors like Roderick) , and Howard Bloom.  I consider Marshall McLuhan and Joseph Campbell to be highly influenced by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, as they both devoted books to Finnegans Wake (Skeleton Key by Campbell, War and Peace in the Global Village by McLuhan). 

I find Campbell the most direct, and Stephen A. Hollar's lecture on Campbell has a similar opinion as me. I studied Hollar's lecture extenively in 2011 after moving to Amman Jordan in March 2013 to study the start of the Syria war / beyond the Arab Spring prediction.

And Carl Sagan's January 1994 Open Letter to We The People, which ws part of his 1995 book Daemon Haunted World. Sagan was not just an astro-physcist (confirm that's his title) - he did TV series (Cosmos), public interviews with Congress, was a well known teacher. I view his media experience relevant because he was a media figure himself and he knew directly how his audiences reacted to his published books, TV series, and how students learned.

Peter P even reads the passage of his book about Surkov using Autism behavior modeling. Which I find fascinating and draws Surkov uses the metaphor of "unmasking" / "remaksing" in Autism before that became such a common topic in the autism community.

Id di NOT discover Peter P's books and writings on The Atlantic until 2017 (?).  In 2015 when I was using Rick Roderick "Self Under Siege" to better understand what was going on since 2014 on the Internet / social media, I did not know it was Russia and Cambridge Analytica. I wish I had known of this in 2015, but I only knew it was MonoMyth warfare - and I telephoned the Pentagon on Monday, August 17, 2015 (first time in my life to contact the Pentagon / Executive Branch directly).  I described the forthcoming Star Wars film in December 2015 and Joseph Campbell's work in the phone call, but I did not know of Peter's 2014 book, Russia Internet Research Agency that went online in early 2013, and 

Peter P does in 2024 is publishing a book that goes back to Germany and UK defense against Germany psychological warfare... but he does not seem to basically reference:

1. Marshall McLuhan's predictions about electric media / statements about Hitler and electric media of Radio (where he contrasts Hitler on TV vs. radio, and compares Nixon and Red Scare of McCartney?)

2. James Joyce triangle of Campbell, McLuhan and by extension of McLuhan - Neil Postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death in 1985 being a cornerstone of my personal experience of 1985 social media perspective and hands-on experience, and 2017 statement by Andrew Postman, Neil's son, that I find extremely relevant.

3. Rick Roderick's social theory in 1993.

4. Howard Blooma Ausut 2000 book on Global Brain / Mass Mind - which is notable for being Before 9/11/2001 which was a major change in thinking about mythology / group thinking .

5. Campbell's direct work with Carl Jung, which Joyce is basically to have avoided Jung - but Campbell integrates it back. Further, Campbell being approached by Dr. John W. Piery wiht 1970's work beyond Jung / Joyce's life.

6. Posstman's emphasis on Brave New World - which I think provides several tiemplates along with FInnegans Wake. I find these early encounters to often provide dramatic insight, as Campbell does with the first few hundred years of Islam being pro-science, and the first 400 years of Christianty being more peer to peer and not heiarchacle - like ROman Pope. I too was in social media, even being officially recognized by IBM in 1991 at age of 21 - for CompuServe, and my own custom build ZBBS platform.  Sometimes I think early adopters see ahead on aspects of people changing, and quote from Eliza developer comes to mind about ChatGPT era and people's faith in interactive social media.

This needs a lot of editing/rework, still brainsotrming stage

What's hapepned to social media with Cambrdige Analytica / Russia manipulation has been very negative for me personally. It really gringds on my autistic mind the mutliple factions of insincerity fighting it out, the deliberate pollution of information. And my family personallly has absolute faith in Putin, Trump, QAnon, etc. I purchased 4 copies of Peter P's book and gave them in-person to my family in 2022 , they refused to discuss a single page of the book and refuse to talk about any of my travels to Africa for the Arab Spring, my 2015 report to the Pentagon, etc. This  is far more emotional and interspective for me, and I appreciate Peter P's direct writing, and I respect Marshall McLuhan's ecellt dress and patience with people - but with my autism this "Menace of Unreality" (Title of Peter P's 2014 paper) is a living nightmare. People have wholesale rejected science,e and the pandemic response conditioning ties to Russia I knew since August 2018  (and the whole "autism is caused by vaccine" bullshit information that grew further than it already had because of deliberate manipuulatn)- and it was a nightmare for me to see  it become a topic for everyone in January 2020. So much hate between people over mocking each other over science / information.

I struggle to write each world of this, my brain is so damaged from the memories and CPTSD from loss of friends in the pandemic and the sheer avalanches of bullshit in the USA over the past 11 years.

Listening to Peter P's latest 2024 work and idea, it is interesting. My approach is to encourage people to create new MonoMyth patterns that they already associate with. Rock Music, and to use the sing-song nature of Finnegans Wake - and the converge of English that since James Joyce's start of Finnegans Wake has proven to grow to where it is now in 2024. The Tower of Babel, etc. And Finnegans Wake has and can be translated at metaphor level, the copyright will eventually expire in the USA (and it already has in many nations).  Will all the popular songs and film clips, no, but that's a greater realization humanity has to also address (Nina Paley's zCopyright is Brain Damage, very critical to the Russian meme warfare brain damage).

I think if we undersell what Surkov ahs done cracking the MonoMyth after the Arab Spring, we are in trouble. We must aim him. Beyond Nato, and include INdia, Japan, China, etc. And Campbell was already working on that with all his writing, and drawing in anchient Egypt, etc. www.GreatSealUSA.com can help our own nation's obsession with left vs. right, and have people focus on old-world-order (Levant monomyth) vs. new world order (Campbell / McLuhan ++ Postman / Joyce body of work, even Woodstock 1969 British Invasion / etc - Taken to All of YouTube, all of Internet social media, etc). We need artists of every type and style to understand waht Enter Shakari understand, what The Who 1969 Tommy opera understood... how to go all the way back to the Caves of Altamira origins of MonoMyth meme patterns - before Hollywood. As McLuhan, said even in 1966, Xerox machines made books informatio services, much like streaming is now to 1980's films. We must teach Campbell's vivaka - descrimination.

And, for the record, Campbell nor I believe in supernatural. I believ ein humanity creating compassion as a form of technology, education and lessons technology, and we are n't teaching it. We have removed the Church for many people, but the Public School has not taken up teaching  www.GreatSealUSA.com and Comparative Mythology - a Super Wikipedia style - beyond Campbell's solo efforts  up to his death in 1987.