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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

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • 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



  • 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 !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.

     

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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


  • 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 Slackman
    May 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

     

    What is the “monomyth problem”?

    !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.

     

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    “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


  • 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.


  • 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.”


  • Is there anything that can be done to hold Reddit accountable or make people aware of they way they are censoring speech?

    Many people on social media platforms don’t realize the spam filters can be abused by attackers to prevent certain topics from being mentioned. And on front-page subreddits they do not publish comments, they look published if you are logged in, but if you check from off-axis they are unpublished. I’ve been posting some of them here and on Bluesky, but nobody cares (on Bluesky, but people have here) !CensoredByReddit@lemm.ee maybe some tech press will cover it.

    Lifetime (of the person) bans on Reddit for individual subreddits and accounts are dumb. That sites been around for decades. I can only image how many people got banned there at age 16 and are completely different people at age 22. I never see people bring this kind of criticism up.


  • But democratized tech doesn’t guarantee democratic outcomes.

    Far from it. We really need a major confrontation of the audience, information warfare needs to be educated to every single person of every age. Continuing education about science and mythology needs to continue, as people continue to flock to fiction and abandon non-fiction in every area of life.

    People just can’t be serious about democracy and LOL and meme away their nation, the USA (where I live), it’s been absolute crisis since 2014.

    “Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985


  • The clergy are failing all of humanity in not calling out the hate patterns in the middle east from all across the world. People need to stop grey-rocking Malala and promote her teachings.

    “If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, October 8, 2013

    “In his pocket he kept a poem written by Martin Niemöller, who had lived in Nazi Germany. First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak out because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, October 8, 2013

    9.9xxx years before October 7, 2023.