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
Work on reading comprehension.
I teach reading comprehension and metaphor literacy here on Lemmy.
[email protected] 'Unified Theory of Science Fiction and NonFiction" literacy.
[email protected] “Media Ecology”, Marshall McLuhan / Neil Postman / etc.
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.
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“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: [email protected]
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“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
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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.
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“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
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“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 [email protected]
You are welcome. Joy.
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“Speak to me of summer, long winters, longer than time can remember,
The setting up of other roads to travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters that
Knew the knowledge of the land, that spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways.” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886Wxionims
That’s some sci-fi nonsense.
All things are science fiction, haven’t you heard? It’s a battle of metaphors and words.
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“Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.” - Faust, Part 2, year 1832. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Checkmate lib.
“?”, a single Unicode character, is the easiest technique on Lemmy electric media systems.
Checkmate
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“If all information is seen as part of a war, out go any dreams of a global information space where ideas flow freely, bolstering deliberative democracy. Instead, the best future one can hope for is an ‘information peace’, in which each side respects the other’s ‘information sovereignty’: a favoured concept of both Beijing and Moscow, and essentially a cover for enforcing censorship.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019
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Can you please give me even the slightest hint of what you don’t comprehend and understand?
Do you know Russia is a nation on the planet Earth?
Do you know “Kremlin” is like the “White House” of the Russian government?
Do you know what “Heart and Mind” means in military strategy? “Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side.”
Can we start there?
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.
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“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
I’d win for most breweries visited. I’m around 600.
You need to study up on Russian manipulation of your own mind, as you clearly have lost your Heart and Mind to Putin in how you go around on Lemmy attacking Americans who are educating about the Kremlin information warfare against the United States of America. Perhaps you have a Russian agent who has influenced you at one of these 600 breweries?
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“Rykov has created a series of websites, similar to Trump2016 ru, or used his Twitter page to post opinions on international politics. He often promotes rightwing political figures; for instance, he has previous promoted the National Front, a French nationalist political party, and its leaders, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and his daughter, Marine Le Pen. Rykov also uses events to draw favorable comparisons to Kremlin policy, such as likening Scotland’s independence movement to Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.”
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.
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.
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 :(
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“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. [email protected]
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.
Bible verse John 1:1 - God is language and only language, God is words and only words, God is memes and only memes.
Bible verse “1 John 4:20” - how “I love Jesus” is wrong, how “I love God” is wrong, You can not love a fiction character in a story you have never seen, all hate of living human persons is wrong.
Bible verse '1 John 4:20" - repeating for emphasis: hate of all living human persons is wrong. Hate is bad.
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 @[email protected] 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: [email protected]
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.
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“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.”
https://www.google.com/search?q="Deep+into+Poe’s+Law+at+this+point"
“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. [email protected]