We are the Robots

Android Meme's Xenochrony by Bob Dobbs




Translation:

Dobbs: I say people are now largely patterns of information. So I like to use historical patterning to illustrate to friends how they became reduced or inflated to these patterns.

Marshall: We've been weaved?

Dobbs: Yes. We've been robots for five hundred years here in the West.

The first phase was psychological automatism. Its icon is Newton.

The second phase was biological automatism. The icon is Darwin.

The third was hardware automatism. Two icons - Edison and Ford.

The fourth was software automatism. Two icons - any President of the United States since World War Two and Walter Cronkite.

The fifth phase is a paradoxical condition. I call it autonomy automatism - the robot confident in declaring its independence and in refining its sense of freedom.

We have an endless supply of icons for this phase - any star in any demographic of any genre of entertainment or information. It's probably obvious to you we have not arrived at the sixth phase.

Everything has disappeared.

There is no present – only an ersatz present.

There is no longer a now. . . .

Barack Obama is Abe Lincoln

Who is this mystery body?

“Charisma is looking like other people.” – Marshall McLuhan

By the way, Bob is right about Obama being the meme of Abe Lincoln: here’s the latest on Obama from an AP report:

“Obama, making his Senate resignation official, said in a letter published in Illinois newspapers Sunday that he was "ending one journey to begin another. ... But I will never forget and will be forever grateful to the men and women of this great state who made my life in public service possible."

In his published letter, Obama quoted Abraham Lincoln, "another son of Illinois" who had left for Washington, "a greater man who spoke to a nation far more divided."
Lincoln, Obama wrote, said of his home: "To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything."

Obama wrote, "I feel the same, and like Lincoln, I ask for your support, your prayers, and for us to `confidently hope that all will yet be well.'"


As I have also noted in this blog below, Obama is the Sixth Black President, not the First. Abe Lincoln is one of the Black Presidents. See:

http://www.computerhealth.org/ebook/5blkpres.htm



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"The oil cartel brought in someone to solve the Global Hologram Collapse." - Bob Dobbs

“We’re off planet people!” – Bob Dobbs

"Wall Street is the ghost of a dead cat bouncing." - Bob Dobbs (or Bub Dibbs) As long as we keep panicking, we keep it going.




We have also posted some new Bob Dobbs Youtubes on Barack Obama at

http://www.myspace.com/paranoia_magazine

“It’s been a good year for spectacles.” – Bob Dobbs

And it’s been a great year for Bob Dobbs.

For endless fun search Youtube for anything by Bob Neveritt, Bob Dobbs, Marshall McLuhan or the above Bub Dibbs.

See more videos for media lessons by McLuhan scholar, Bob Dobbs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wKIlb3yyCc&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wKIlb3yyCc&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAFRi2yJs4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDbMC6OVnNQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYCOO9XqJY&feature=related

The world of the instant replay – Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan on Instant Replay




Study the Effects of Media – Not the Content - McLuhan

Here’s a lesson in Media Hot, Media Cool by McLuhan




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