Stephen Alfred Gutknecht
Professional in social media since 1985, created / sold social media server apps at age 15. Traveled the world to study media ecology.
"Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine
Nothing you describe is unique about human behavior throughout history in regards to domination of kings and warlords.
In the message you just replied to, I quoted:
“Donald decided to invite for this task — the special scientific department of the “Cambridge University.” British scientists from Cambridge Analytica suggested making 5,000 existing human psychotypes — the “ideal image” of a possible Trump supporter. Then … put this image back on all psychotypes and thus pick up a universal key to anyone and everyone. Then it was only necessary to upload this data to information flows and social networks.”
That is what is new. Lemmy and Twitter are what is new here. the population of the Earth, airports, and the ability to have 5,000 channels of fiction are what is new. Technology created by non-politicians is what is new.
The “American Dream” is dead and buried. A house, a car, 2.5 kids, white picket fence. They don’t exist anymore.
Exactly what time period do you think those existed at all? I'm GenerationX born in 1969 and I had it (I'm 3rd child, parents were middle class)... but I think that only lasted from 1950 to 1990. And frankly, people who lived in downtown New York City in any time period didn't live that way.
"The American Dream" is the www.GreatSealUSA.com - also on Lemmy !GreatSealUSA@lemm.ee
And what I see in May 2025 is Lemmy users who refuse to be serious and exit the 5,000 Cambridge Analytica screen games of "hate harder' (which mentioned in the message you replied to).
Let me be ultra blunt:
We are still not living in real reality, which was what the nation was founded on and defined by the www.GreatSealUSA.com
This is a global problem. I have also lived in Chile in South America, in Algeria in North Africa, in Jordan in Middle East, in Malaysia and Indonesia - and they aren't living in scientific reality either.
Carl Sagan in 1994 and 1995 spelled out how we would be living in 2025 if we continued to abandon science thinking.
I think we live in entertainment thinking. Fiction Lemmy, fiction Fox News, fiction Twitter, etc. Just as Carl Sagan said in his 1995 book.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. 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
The “American Dream” is dead and buried. A house, a car, 2.5 kids, white picket fence. They don’t exist anymore.
That was a TV show called "leave it to Beaver", a fiction TV show. And people still live in fiction dreams. Donald Trump is a fiction storyteller and people on Lemmy are not discussing reality itself, only reacting with popcorn to the fiction. That's what Carl Sagan was spelling out in his 1995 book, we were building fiction again, to live in "American Dream" of living in anti-science thinking, fiction films and TV show thinking. Donald Trump "The Apprentice" reality Twitter show of White House Tweeting.
US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return << Putin won Hybrid War, "Hearts + Minds" of USA to self-harm, Americans Hate Americans, do not defend against information warfare from Rus
daepicgamerbro69 : right next to the part that says you’re a moron.
Lyra,
You said in another post today you have memory problems. I have extreme severe brain damage. Maybe you have problems like I do?
no need to compliment me aha
Do you go all over Lemmy being insincere and mocking what you don't grasp or understand?
You could have just said “Yes, you’re correct”
You could have said that to me as moderator of my community when you seem highly confused and made a claim a post broke rules. But instead, you insulted me instead of actually addressing your misunderstanding.
Deep into Poe’s Law at this point.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Deep+into+Poe%E2%80%99s+Law+at+this+point%22
"Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views."
Yet, you can't grasp the thousands of years old Tower of Babel, Babel Tower, metaphors. !BabelTower@lemm.ee
Zelenskyy: Russia is deceiving the US & whole world >>> Ukraine is GOING PUBLIC that Russian Hybrid Warfare against the entire World Wide Web won, "War Against Reality" Peter Pomerantsev 2014 correct!
that was a lot of bullshit I’m not gonna read.
You crave Lemmy shit of TLDR, "ELI4" reading material, I get it. Very common in April 2025. Anti-learning, anti-understanding, a population of people who think Donald Trump on Truth Social and Twitter is the smartest thing in the whole wide world. Attracted to Elon Musk / Fox News HDTV parroting social media Lemmy content.
::: ______________"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
I’m saying, Russia encourages both sides to fight each other and I’m sick of the fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days
You said "fuck off", spreading hate. I was born in Georgia, were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is from, you need lessons: "You can't see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost"
"There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can't see straight when you hate. You can't walk straight when you hate. You can't stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. 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." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m saying, Russia encourages both sides to fight each other and I’m sick of the fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days
It is Americans like JD Vance and Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump spreading hate on media systems, it is also Middle East supporters who want to kill each other in Israel and Palestine over Torah Synagogue vs. Quran Mosque, I suggest you view hate itself a s problem no matter where it is in the world and your "FUCK OFF" messages are hate messages.
fucking Russian propaganda everywhere and anywhere I look these days
You think October 7, 2023 in the Middle East has nothing to do with social media propaganda everywhere the past 18 months? You know how long those hate-wars have been going on, thousands of years. Propaganda everywhere surged when terrorists attack Israel. This isn't only a Russia and USA problem.
::: ______________“We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013. Age 16
Maybe leave the room while the adults are talking
I see how you go around on Lemmy saying Twitter-length insult comments on political discussions. An agent of mockery for Putin lovers.
Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag .com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change "the climate of discussion." "If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there's an article that's critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don't bother to comment," she says. "You don't participate. It's a way of just driving discussion away completely," she adds. "Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work."
Fuck off back to Russia you divisive troll
I'm not Russian. My name is Stephen Gutknecht, I was born in Columbus Georgia. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I've been to Milwaukee, the topic of this Lemmy posting. I speak critically of Russia, but you seem to have a style of Lemmy communication I can describe: Your messages here on Lemmy are reactionary, Twitter-length hate-filled "fuck off" messages to Americans, that's what you do here to Americans who call-out Putin's information war on social media systems.
Fuck off
As I said, i was born in Georgia. That's were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is from. Going around on social machines and telling people to "fuck off" is hate messaging, I suggest you study up on what hate does to your brain:
"There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can't see straight when you hate. You can't walk straight when you hate. You can't stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. 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." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
you divisive troll
Your Lemmy account is only 2 months old, you show up on days-old post that mention Russia and you start attacking the Americans who are criticizing Russia. Are you describing your own Lemmy messages, psychologically projecting that you are copying "Internet Research Agency" patterns of messages in April 2025 on Lemmy?
Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag .com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change "the climate of discussion." "If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there's an article that's critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don't bother to comment," she says. "You don't participate. It's a way of just driving discussion away completely," she adds. "Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work."
This waste of space owes existence itself an apology.
So you have one-line answers to all political discussions on Lemmy with your one-month fresh account. I see you are a video gamer, do you think Lemmy is a screen game of reaction-commenting to important issues, detached from reality of how the psychologists and psychiatrists of Cambridge Analytica have worked with Russia to create alternate-reality out of USA society?
Have you noticed how people in USA are behaving in 2025, talking about invading Greenland and forcing Canada to be the 51st state... or are you back to your video games for distraction? Have you ever studied how people can become detached from reality and dehumanizing with social computer systems, outright anti-humanism behaviors?
::: _____________"At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations"
No, I think what I need is Deez Nuts.
You communicate like "these nuts" are Elon Musk in your mouth - Twitter-thinking level of media comprehension and engagement, little short-line shit-thinking Tweet reaction comments. Copying your social machine heroes.
::: ______________“Social media, that little narcissism machine, the easiest way we have ever had to place ourselves on a pedestal of vanity, also is the mechanism that most efficiently breaks you up.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019
lunlu @lemmygrad.ml: No way you are not an AI
So many Lemmy users are so poorly educated on what real humans are and think everything they consume through computers is artificial intelligence, I created a Lemmy community for you...
You need to learn not to trust fake Artificial Intelligence detectors, you probably also need remedial morality lessons too: !RemedialMorality@lemm.ee
::: ____________“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer science, 1974
Fuck he escaped outside of his echo chamber!
Unable to talk about your simulacra mental conditioning, can you? Only able to react within the 5,000 Cambridge Analytica meme patterns that lead your mind to mock and mockery, Nazi symbols of Elon Musk memes.
::: _________“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
I think the joke
I think the joke is to make light of the USA situation in April 2025 and how X media platform messages and Elon Musk electric media communications is used to create "mind virus" changes in the population, to use absurd comedy and surreal humor, to cause dissociation of reality among the electric media consumers, as this Lemmy user has been doing against pro-NATO and pro-USA defense efforts to educate the population about Russian Hybrid Warfare on the World Wide Web / social media systems, trivializing topics with low-effort dismissive reaction-comments.
"bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd." ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014
::: ____________“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
The current swasticar overtaken by the former swasticar
I see you are only attracted to mimicking Elon Musk symbolism in one-line X media platform fashion when you approach symbolic systems. Everything is entertainment mockery to you: VW hippy busses are pro-Nazi symbols, LOL LOL LOL. The echo-chamber is inside your brain, only able to repeat what horrible leaders have conditioned your mind to parrot. In this case, Adolph Hitler values and Elon Musk values into Twitter-length X simulacra response on Lemmy media platform in April 2025.
"That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together" - Hannah Arendt
You can take the Twitter users off of Twitter, but you can't take the Twitter out of their brain. 8 whole words of parroting symbols.
::: _______________“For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is 'banal' and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.” ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"Putin is clearly winning Russia’s hybrid war against the U.S. because Americans don’t understand how they are being manipulated. One of the main difficulties" - December 11, 2020. Heritage Foundation
London protester - "Clothing is anti-environmental, but it also creates a new environment. It is also anti- the elements and anti-enemies" - 1968
How Cambridge Analytica has conditioned you to message like this on Lemmy. "WTF" kind of reactionary conditioned reply electric message.
You think this is only one single nation. it's the entire world, WWW.