Stephen Alfred Gutknecht

Brain damaged by autism and Donald Trump. Brain damaged by USA society MAGA nonsense. Media ecology of Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan topics. Please read: “War and Peace In The Global Village” - 1968 book on paper.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•"The misinformation machine seems unstoppable at this point. Even if Dems prevail in November and in 2028, these stupid ppl are still going to be out there pissed off and fired up about" - August 6English
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    26 days ago

    “Even if Dems prevail in November and in 2028, these stupid ppl are still going to be out there pissed off and fired up about a decade of lies from the leader of their cult.” - Reddit app user

     

    I view it as a fundamental misunderstanding of society trending topics to view Donald Trump storytelling as “decade of lies”. Trump is an entertainer performance artist. https://lastwordonnothing.com/2014/09/22/why-donald-trump-is-the-worlds-greatest-artist/ Reality TV “The Apprentice” star, celebrity. What We The People wants 24 hours a day 7 days a week, cravings and desires, is Spider-Man fiction fantasy stories, Lord of the Rings fiction fantasy stories, Star Wars Disney theme parks, etc.

    Donald Trump and other Surkov students are providing fiction-based leadership of the nation. Donald Trump is a creative storyteller who provides fiction mythological storytelling. Humanity has favored fantasy fiction from leaders for thousands and thousands of years. We The People find nonfiction factual leadership to be boring and unattractive. Donald Trump provides thrilling meme content inspirations. Fandom, media cult nation. Fiction far outsells nonfiction in every media system.

    Harrison Ford is not “telling lies” when flying a spaceship or doing archaeology travels. Harrison Ford is an entertainer that is incredibly popular for creating fiction content. This is what We The People desire out of leaders now, fiction fantasy storytelling popularity. Trump family provides entertaining stories.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Dr. Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv: "Will we reverse course, before the course grows even more irreversible?" regarding MAGA and Trump USAEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Censored on Lemmy in The Onion community:

     

     

     

    Joke-washing, satire-washing, comedy prizing Donald Trump has wrecked the USA. Sane-washing entertainer television celebrity Trump as the ultimate source of jokes about mental health, funny about brain problems, the ultimate USA values of mocking someone with mental problems.

    MAGA is a cult to Trump as entertainer. “Owning the libs” is a sports mentality of “winner takes all”. MAGA is a cult to media entertainment television like Newsmax and Fox News. Celebrity worship of a type of cage match aggression against out-groups. Cult values of stimulating leadership that values conquest and stock market screen game high scores. Inflation is seen as good because screen game number: high score world records.

     

    Dr. Bandy X Lee ignored

    Dr. Bandy X Lee’s 27 leaders have been ignored since year 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dangerous_Case_of_Donald_Trump If We The People would quote and promote Dr. Lee every day we would addressing the adult education crisis. Teaching and educating the general population, all citizens, as to the kind of self-destructive leaders prized as businessmen.

    We The People are only serious about joke-cracking meme-making regarding Donald Trump’s mental problems as comedy.

     

    President Tony Clifton

    We are eating the onion. Trump is playing a character named “Tony Clifton”. Nobody can believe that a New York City Trump has learned how to blow the minds of his opponents with study of a New York City performer, Andy Kaufman.

     

    The USA was wrecked because people have blind faith that mocking mental health disorders is always the answer. Permanent mocking blind faith. Jokes about mentally slow people are the ultimate and most unquestioned faith in USA culture / society. The ultimate win of any debate is mocking at someone’s brain. Trump is a master of drawing attention to his mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQgjpnr5e2s

     

    • “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 241.

     

    People will mock away at Carl Sagan’s year 1995 teaching. No way, we couldn’t all be falling for Trump’s Tony Clifton performances. No way someone could be acting that bad!

     

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKTR8Yj5hg4 “Now, you are probably asking yourself right now: who is Tony Clifton, right?”; "meet Tony Clifton: a nightclub singer, a burned out nightclub singer, possibly the worst nightclub singer you have ever seen or heard. "; "now how can an act this bad "

     

    “Is Donald Trump Really Just Andy Kaufman in Disguise? An Investigation”
    September 26, 2016 at 12:33 PM EDT
    Newsweek Magazine
    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-andy-kaufman-disguise-election-502292

     

    Nation of Suckers

    • “Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us and we risk becoming a nation of suckers” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995, page 38

     

    We The People of the United States of America: a nation of suckers for LOLcow milking Donald Trump day and night since July 6, 2011 https://theoutline.com/post/2445/trump-s-first-real-tweet-was-on-july-6-2011 - milking a mentally impaired man for jokes about brain problems. We The People: always avoiding Dr. Bandy X Lee since year 2017.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Truth Social Reflection Pool: Donald Trump Groupies. Thinking system and MAGA values of Truth Social. Antics politics and broken window attractions. Ultra dumb-shit sells to app content addictsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Expanding Upon, Ecology of Reflection Pool antics media politics

    • “there is no fallacy in broken window media engagement” (top header of this very webpage - expanding upon that idea). Hollywood television and films thrive off broken windows of sets and props. Car wreck spectaculars captured on film and sold to audiences for huge profits. Millions of dollars can be spent preparing action scenes for media cultists. Donald Trump is a master content creator.

    • Reddit app users, Bluesky app users mocking into the pool of Trump originated mockery: “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.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 59

      • App users can not resist the brain rot simplicity of such easy low-effort mocking. President Tony Clifton character blows the minds of electric media touch device users. Donald Trump is a master performer and content creator. Irresistible total mockery host.

     

    • Donald Trump (SNL NYC home town character President Tony Clifton) is great at drawing crowds with the antics politics of the reflection pool. SEE_ALSO “WonderWorks is an entertainment center focused on science exhibits with six locations in the United States. Its buildings are commonly built as if they are upside down. The experience is considered “edutainment”, a combination of education and entertainment.” - It isn’t that Trump is educating, so much as obedient-creating (app content followers) patriotic symbolism gumbo. PatriotProgramEntertainment as a single concept-word. Donald Trump Clifton knows how to make Bluesky app Reddit app users mock into the pool of the total mockery with status symbol and icon arrangements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WonderWorks_(museum)

     

    • It is IMPOSSIBLE to cult-deprogram app users who can not criticize the USA society of media addictions. We The People on touch devices who compulsively mock into Trump’s Tony Clifton SNL character performances. “One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Nonfiction book. Published year 1992.

     

    • Bluesky app Reddit app users praise and seek out Trump MAGA mockery engagement. Tabloid attraction Donald Trump MAGA platforms for touch device addictions. “Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe: How New York’s gossip pages helped turn a lying real estate developer into a celebrity phenom.” By SUSAN MULCAHY May/June 2016. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/2016-donald-trump-tabloids-new-york-post-daily-news-media-213842/

      • The constant year 2025 and year 2026 shit-postings about Donald Trump, the popularity of shit-commenting dumb-shit messaging about Donald Trump on Reddit media, Bluesky media meme apps. “I helped make the myth of Donald Trump. And for that, I am very, very sorry. If you worked for a newspaper in New York in the 1980s, you had to write about Trump.” - SUSAN MULCAHY. May 2016

      • “If you worked for a newspaper in New York in the 1980s, you had to write about Trump.” - SUSAN MULCAHY. May 2016 … this reflects exactly what New York University (Manhattan) Professor Neil Postman published in year 1985:

        • “For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111

          • “Howdy Doody is an American children’s television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell and E. Roger Muir. It was broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_Doody
  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•We Choose Dumb: We The People on social media keep choosing casual insult-language to Donald Trump. { Crazy, Insane, Mad Man, Nuts } instead of repeating Dr. Bandy X Lee since year 2017English
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    3 months ago

    I think the fault here is entirely misplaced.

    It is the prizing of low-effort Twitter 140 character, 3.5 second media that Carl Sagan described as the crisis in year 1995:

     

    Celebration of Ignorance

    “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a (year 1995) 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, page 59

    year 1995 media 10-second sound bites == year 2025 Bluesky and Twitter media reaction comments / images.

     

    Nation of Suckers

    “Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us and we risk becoming a nation of suckers” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995, page 38

     

     

    The more precise language should be used by professionals, and not just in one little known book, but every day, in every possible outlet.

    It isn’t the language, it is the attraction to extreme low-effort commenting. Millions of comments all on different Lemmy and Bluesky and Reddit postings instead of getting on the same page at the same time. It is the fragmentation and app user clowning that normalizes the situation instead of taking it seriously.

     

     

    Neil Postman 1985

    “For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111

    • “Howdy Doody is an American children’s television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell and E. Roger Muir. It was broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_Doody

     

     

    Trump plays Tony Clifton

    Trump as entertainment, Howdy Doody. Tony Clifton acts entertain EVERYONE who mocks and joins the total mockery. Mocking is not resisting Trump. Mocking Trump is joining MAGA values. Mocking into a mockery of MAGA. Media addiction itself is MAGA Trump.

     

     

    Happy Bloomsday 2026!

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•"Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon basically planned the entire alt-right movement starting with 4-chan and GamerGate." - Wednesday, March 11, 2026English
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    6 months ago

    Year 2019

     

    “Chaos and disruption, I later learned, are central tenets of Bannon’s animating ideology. Before catalyzing America’s dharmic rebalancing, his movement would first need to instill chaos through society so that a new order could emerge. He was an avid reader of a computer scientist and armchair philosopher who goes by the name Mencius Moldbug, a hero of the alt-right who writes long-winded essays attacking democracy and virtually everything about how modern societies are ordered. Moldbug’s views on truth influenced Bannon, and what Cambridge Analytica would become. Moldbug has written that “nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth,” and Bannon embraced this. “Anyone can believe in the truth,” Moldbug writes, “to believe in nonsense is an unforgettable demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.” ― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, page 85. year 2019

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•WE THE PEOPLE, PLURIBUSEnglish
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    7 months ago

    “But insisting on the lie, the Kremlin intimidates others by showing that it is in control of defining ‘reality.’ This is why it’s so important for Moscow to do away with truth. If nothing is true, then anything is possible. We are left with the sense that we don’t know what Putin will do next — that he’s unpredictable and thus dangerous. We’re rendered stunned, spun, and flummoxed by the Kremlin’s weaponization of absurdity and unreality.” - year 2014

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