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
That US/NATO has continued its demonic diminishment of Russia after this point, including nazi coups under fake liberal colour revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, does not make anyone opposed to the stupidity and demonism of empire overreach. You supporting demonic nazis for diminishment of others (and Ukrainian population including nazis)
The monomyth problem is global. Russia freaked out and thought the Arab Spring was active measures by the Pentagon, it wasn't. It was because of the Apple iPhone being introduced in year 2007 and cheaper DSL internet in North Africa from 2005 onward... women able to access the greater Internet and see media and education they had not seen before.
Russia is not in control of the monomyth patterns, if anything it is large language models / artificial intelligence since 2022.
Law? There is no law in the U.S. until, by some miracle, we get rid of Cheeto Chimp and all the rest at the top. IMO: that’s not going to happen. Not even in '28.
So you are here on Lemmy systems creating messages saying nothing will happen, not even for 4 years, And that you think there is no law at all. So you think you can just go rob banks and tamper with drugs on the shelf of stores and do anything you want because you believe everything you read off social machine systems. That you live in an alternate reality induced by Lemmy meme consumption and anything you think is the one perfect understanding of the world.
You are unable to even distinguish reality from ChatGPT / Large Language Model Systems. You really need to try and come to terms with the Kremlin's "War Against Reality" that has taken place on electric media machines, including Lemmy media platform, here is a year 2014 story:
"Russia and the Menace of Unreality""How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare"By Peter PomerantsevSeptember 9, 2014
"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"MORE HERE: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/russia-putin-revolutionizing-information-warfare/379880/
::: ___________“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
Pathetic losers. And, even “Nazis” if they’re still in the Tesla community.
I see you go all over Lemmy electric media systems communicating in Twitter-length reactions, behaving like Elon Musk X media platform users (and Elon Musk himself) and Donald Trump on social machines like Twitter and Truth Social.
TOPIC: Trump Has 'Begun Process' of Replacing Pete Hegseth
It’s called humor.
So you are here on USA topics on social machines to sanewash and morality wash Donald Trump using amusement and humor, portray this as all Reality TV "The Apprentice" and not a crisis in USA. I understand fully, that's why Elon Musk purchased Twitter in year 2022, to further support the alternate reality "this isn't real, it's just The Apprentice comedy show" perspective of Americans.
::: _____________“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
TLDR
"Too long, I can't read beyond 3 words"
Literacy problems abound, many people can no longer read printed paper books. Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" covers that problem.
I’m not sure I would call it successful in the long (or even medium) term given the events that directly followed…
Based on a study of your usage of Lemmy, I'm not sure you are capable of having any ideas that are sure.
You came along to one of my messages and said "What a sad, pathetic waste of time this comment was" just a few minutes ago. I think you are here to promote anti-intellectualism on Lemmy media systems.
The French Revolution that was massively successful in removing scum from the country?
I think it promoted anti-intellectualism and violence, which many people in April 2025 on electric media systems of Twitter, Lemmy, Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit, TikTok, Fox News HDTV, CNN HDTV seem to adore. The idea of killing and murdering human beings they disagree with, the machine powers of guns and weapons to dehumanize others.
::: ______________"There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that. I'm sure that most of you would agree with me in making that assertion. And when we stop to analyze the cause of our world's ills, many things come to mind. We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don't know enough. But it can't be that. Because in terms of accumulated knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of human history. We have the facts at our disposal. We know more about mathematics, about science, about social science, and philosophy than we've ever known in any period of the world's history. So it can't be because we don't know enough. And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific genius lags behind. That is, if we have not made enough progress scientifically. Well then, it can't be that. For our scientific progress over the past years has been amazing. Man through his scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains, so that today it's possible to eat breakfast in New York City and supper in London, England. Back in about 1753 it took a letter three days to go from New York City to Washington, and today you can go from here to China in less time than that. It can't be because man is stagnant in his scientific progress. Man's scientific genius has been amazing. I think we have to look much deeper than that if we are to find the real cause of man's problems and the real cause of the world's ills today. If we are to really find it I think we will have to look in the hearts and souls of men."
What a sad, pathetic waste of time this comment was.
I see you are giving Twitter-length one-line reaction comments at least 4 times so far on this Lemmy posting ("'Evil is being defeated by God': Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates after Pope's death"). Anything beyond Twitter-thinking length must be too much for your mind right now. I'm sorry you suffer from such literacy problems and egoism, it is very common on Lemmy, Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter that people have such low literacy that they are only able to react in negative ways when they can't comprehend a topic.
This sort of problem of Twitter-length literacy simple-think "Hate Harder" values and reactions to complexity has even overtaken the White House in January 2025 where I live, the United States of America. It's a very sad and sick situation I am living under in April 2025 :(
: ::: _____________“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
No, Good Christians know God made Evil and that’s why they’re Satanists
Good literate and understanding Christians know how to read the Bible and understand it is fiction storytelling, as is clearly spelled out. It is not a non-fiction history book. It is science fiction storytelling, very inspiring, like George Lucas Star Wars inspires people.
No, Good Christians know God made Evil and that’s why they’re Satanists
In the Bible storytelling, verse Romans 11:32 - www.Romans1132.org website I created to educate people on this topic - you will see it is plain as day that the story character "God" is the origin of all sins and that all sin is forgiven with mercy.
But ideas beyond Twitter-length mockery and mocking take a little more effort than snark and insults.
The Tower of Babel metaphor of humanity is one of the most important concepts in understanding why people behave the way they do over language usage and differences in interpretation. I created a Lemmy community for you @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social so you can better understand the complexity problems of diverse use of human languages in writing and verbal, electric media communications / media ecology study, and even body languages. Tower of Babel Lemmy community: !BabelTower@lemm.ee
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated following the death of Pope Francis on Monday.
I was born in Columbus Georgia and my brother Jeff lives in Georgia currently. There is a serious problem with Bible Literacy. I created a Mastodon electric media platform hashtag hashtag Bible Literacy Crisis on the topic.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a world-famous preacher in Georgia. We should be helping her better understand how to comprehend the imported Levant Bible storybook and not just using social machines to mock and dehumanize Marjorie Taylor Greene.
::: ______________"The Baptist Georgia governor won a majority of evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters had changed sides—for the long haul." ... "Before this sustained propaganda barrage, however, many of those questions had not yet acquired any hard-line partisan or denominational coloration—indeed, in 1973, when the US Supreme Court handed down its decision sanctioning the individual right to abortion, Roe v. Wade, Carter’s own Southern Baptist conference issued a statement supporting the ruling. Instead, Carter became vilified among religious conservatives for several specific policy decisions."
I can forgive the murder of everyone in an apartment building
I see you are all for killing and murder of people as you dog-whistle that you want to see people killed in their homes. That "everyone" in a multi-family building, mass murder and violence are your dehumanization messages on social machines of lemmy.
I can forgive the murder of everyone in an apartment building
People like you and Pete Hegseth find the power of computers and HDTV Fox News electric media platforms in their hand and technology systems to attack and dehumanize and promote anti-intellectualism with snark and shit-talk to dehumanize those that you disagree with, trying to divide people into groups to classify who is sub-human compared to other groups, instead of promoting that all people are equal and that hate is a common problem no matter the race, nation, time period, geography, religion, eye color, skin color, hair color, height, gender, etc.
“Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what’s right. But I’m here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it’s wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
::: _______________"Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific" https://notthewriteryourelookingfor.tumblr.com/post/759681306752942080
And it wont be stopped. Might slow it down. But the dems have been playing against an ever increasingly stacked deck since the Reagan Administration. Disinsentivizing education, anti-intellectualism, grievance politics, outright lies dressed up as “entertainment” and more.
So you think we can't stop it, don't even try? Such a hopeless attitude.
The Republicans played a long game to engineer this coup that virtually nobody saw coming. Not even they themselves.
They still don't see it. It was planned in November 2012:
"For four years and two days .. it was necessary to get to everyone in the brain and grab all possible means of mass perception of reality. Ensure the victory of Donald in the election of the US President. Then create a political alliance between the United States, France, Russia (and a number of other states) and establish a new world order. Our idea was insane, but realizable."
"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."
The Republicans played a long game to engineer this coup that virtually nobody saw coming. Not even they themselves.
Americans lost a war to Russia and 100% of the population doesn't even realize it. They are so busy with American on American hate (that the 5,000 alternate reality screen games cultivate), that they are entirely unable to go to the public library and get books on cult deprogramming and media ecology to defend their nation.
The Republicans aren't winning anything. Americans are self-destructing the USA with Hate Harder attitudes and self-harm.
Fuck China, but also fuck Elon
Ahh, so you hate people you disagree with. Today is Easter Sunday, maybe you should brush up on your morality lessons. I'm holding !RemedialMorality@lemm.ee teaching right here on Lemmy platform.
You go around telling people you don't like that their life should be fucked-over. The entire nation of China. I can see why you are so popular on Lemmy and get so many upvotes, you spread hate and dehumanization.
I’d argue it started with Bush and his No Child Left Behind bullshit. It forced a certain curriculum to leave out common sense and critical thinking skills
Children aren't the problem. it's adults who get their constant education off anonymous memes. The year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone changed everything about USA society. We had the Fox News Rupert Murdoch problem since 1996, but the shit memes people flock to and "shit postings" addiction are the learning / education / study problem.
Shitpostinh education is very predictable adult education outcome. Cal Sagan predicted in in 1995: “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding (from 1995) 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, year 1995
Own your president Trump.
People need to own up to anonymous no-identity social media addiction. The egomania they get chasing junk (drugs) off of Apple iPhone / iPad / Samsung / machine devices. Donald Trump is entirely an Apple iPhone addict in egomania off machine lust, as too is Elon Musk.
nothing of this could have been possible without a ruined education system and mindless propaganda.
Nothing is more mindless than the education people get off of Lemmy memes, Reddit memes, Bluesky memes, Fox News HDTV, Joe Rogan. That's the education that creates an audience for Donald Trump. Self-centered eoomania, like the Middle East gets with one religion vs. another religion. Fiction addiction problems are raging in USA.
Even if your theory was true
My theory:
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
What is looking like more of an idiot than he already does going to accomplish? He’s the most idiotic politician in living memory, by far, and there are some absolutely colossal morons on that list.
He is a Reality TV star. People can not resist mocking Donald Trump. Mocking isn't resisting, mockery is all part of the Kremlin media techniques. The more idiotic he and Elin Musk behaves, the more people rush to their social machines and LOL. People can not resist his orange skin color, it makes skin color a constant topic (brown, black, white, orange, etc).
Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014
I REALLY hope trump is just actively destroying the US either in the name of putin
People won't discuss that this was all planned in a November 2013 Moscow meeting and announced one month later in December 2013... shortly before the February 2014 Ukraine invasion. https://lemmy.world/post/27627662/16165977
Are they just stupid or have they been paid off?
Neither one. they are in a cult. Donald Trump is entertaining / clickbait / meme leadership. The novelty of having a 78 year old man shit-talk on an Apple iPhone they can't resist. They have brain damage from it all.
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
Play stupid games and win stupid prices.
He is playing Vlad Putin 8D Chess, not Donald Trump 1D Checkers. https://lemmy.world/post/27627662/16165977 This was all planned in 2013.
Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014
Not sure what your point is and I’m not interested.
Repeating: "MAGA is death-wishing people that disagree with Elon Musk and Donald Trump values and leadership."
And you see value in using Lemmy social machine systems to announce that you are not interested. That in itself says a lot about the current state of affairs.
It’s just a thought experiment to imagine MAGA heads exploding.
Fantasy. Simulacra. MAGA is death-wishing people that disagree with Elon Musk and Donald Trump values and leadership. Pretty much the entire nation is adopting death-wishing and social machine conventions of mass dehumanization. Trending towards more and more self-destruction as a nation.
Your sources all overlook the changing role of women, inexpensive personal computers, DSL access.
The Pentagon was not the underlying source of the Arab Spring. As I said, I predicted it using Marshall McLuhan and James Joyce in 2009.... while I was living in Austin, Texas and studying media ecology of new commercial social media systems and all the Americans showing off their bling bling life to the world.
"A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women"By Michael SlackmanMay 26, 2007"ALGIERS, May 25 — In this tradition-bound nation scarred by a brutal Islamist-led civil war that killed more than 100,000, a quiet revolution is under way: women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world."https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/africa/26algeria.html
!FictionNonFiction@lemm.ee "Unified Theory of Fiction and Non-Fiction" talks about it here on lemmy.
We have known for 2000 years that "I love Jesus" is wrong, "I love Allah" is wrong, "I love Yahweh" is wrong, "I love God" is wrong. Bible verse "1 John 4:20" from the Levant. And I am NOT a believer that the Bible is historical factual history. It is science fiction. But the behavior problems towards fiction, "alternate reality games", is a crisis now more than ever with what Cambridge Analytica and the Kremlin Released in March 2013 on the World Wide Web
You continue to show you are a true believer in the Kremlin and do not see the Pale Blue Dot global perspective of the "Tower of Babel" problem, languages and metaphor systems.
::: __________"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot poem