#DearSurkov / #DearPutin / Kremlin
I don't know why Surkov stopped working with Putin, why Putin sidelined Surkov. I do know that Surkov has insight into the #MonoMyth and seems to have "cracked the monomyth" story pattern without using or referencing James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
I suspect that Surkov had one goal in mind, what methods of getting people to pay attention worked best. How to get groups to behave when directed, and came into the pattern of the monomyth. It isn't as if Hollywood
never heard of the MonoMyth. Luke Skywalker was put right on the cover of reprints of Joseph Campbell's 1949 book "Hero with a Thousand Faces". But Surkov had an iterative approach of interacting with the domestic population, people in groups, of Russia and #AlmostZero book frames public relations on a scale of experience and puzzle-pieces.
I think Surkov discovered the monomyth on his own. Through experience directing people and seeing the results. But eventually one starts to see what
Howard Bloom describes in his book "The Muhammad Code", published in 2014 (?). Terrorism.
When you start feeding a society ("group thinking", "mob mentality") patterns of messages and symbols as Surkov was directing from the Kremlin - and they are negative in oriented, people become team-oriented and competitive for bad things. Terrorist group vs. warlord vs. terrorist group. What Joseph Campbell in 1987 "Power of Myth" called a "Monster State". But it is worse, you can't turn it around.
Hollywood screenplay writers, smart and introspective people, do not delve into Finnegans Wake itself. There is a whole circle of film and TV storytelling they pass around in Hollywood creative circles, and among novel writers looking to create multi-book stories like Lord of the Rings, etc - but they never mention James Joyce and Finnegans Wake, do they? They know of Marshall McLuhan, they know of Joseph Campbell, but they never HEAR McLuhan & Campbell BOTH POINT to James Joyce, Finnegans Wake.
#SurkovOutcome - Surkov, I don't want this job. I don't want to use my shitty writing and organization broken mind to try and put together this puzzle that you unleashed on the world. But I don't think anyone realizes just how powerful your work was, what your books are saying. I don't think Surkov has been given the credit for the talent that has been shown. Not by Putin (Surkov's "management" of the Kremlin) or by those on the receiving end of the payloads. But man, this shit is scary as hell.
Scary as hell. I don't know how to stop it. My ramblings are because to me this is a NIGHTMARE come alive. I don't think there is some creator in outer space who is gong to swoop down and save humanity from itself, from our own evolutionary violence and "brain flaws". We are apes with weapons. There is a whole side of religion (that comes from man by all evidence, not from outer space aliens) about compassion and love. And terrorism is all the MOTIVATION that religion brings without the mercy.
James Joyce got to see this in Catholic vs. Protestant in Ireland, and you can see it in terrorism of Shia vs. Sunni / Orthodox vs. everything. I've pointed out Bible verse '1 John 4:20" here in the past year on Mastodon many times, and I point it out again, Surkov and #SurkovStudents
In the USA I can give a simple crude example of the 2000 year old "1 John 4:20" equation: "I love Jesus!! I'm proud of Jesus! But I hate Muslims and I hate Mexicans stealing my jobs". And I have SEEN it.
Surkov, Putin - listen to your compassionate scientists, PLEASE. Carl Sagan was the kind of teacher the world needs so badly. He wasn't a sell-out to any power, he was everything in Rush's song "Tom Sawyer", no god or government. And he still was kind and loving. But he still had marriage problems, a divorce, and all the kind of shit you see with rock stars like John Lennon. He was compassion but also imperfect. Man, does humanity need teachers that are that GOOD, who value GOODNESS!
#CarlSagan - pride in HUMANITY, Mean mean Pride in Human accomplishment, in #Sputnik - pride in teaching tools and teachers. Pride in the Greeks and the tradition of science and passing down goodness and truth from person to person. Carl Sagan fits this song so well.
Hollywood writers won't cross into Finnegans Wake. You don't hear Hollywood writers talk about James Joyce in interviews and how Campbell and McLuhan and others. Even the druggies who have heard of people like Terence McKenna - don't listen to Terence McKenna go on and on about James Joyce! Nor do you hear the druggies mention what Marshall McLuhan had to say about LSD drug ( #hashtag "LazyWake" here).
Putin, Surkov - I need your help! This shit is terrifying what you did, what Cambridge
