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’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?
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. !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.
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 @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.
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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.”
Get a therapist.
I have. how does it address mass dehumanization and people who love machines and dehumanize people with hate messages like you are doing right now on Lemmy computers?
What’s your name? My name is Stephen Alfred Gutknecht ?
Get a therapist.
it’s such a popular 3-word Twitter kind of year 2024 and year 2025 Elon Musk style answer to complex problems.
Do you think “Get a private therapist” fixes things for people living in Russia and Ukraine in year 2024? People living in Palestine in year 2024? Have you never studied the “Mass Man” (Marshall McLuhan terms) of media ecology and society-wide issues?
Get a therapist.
I have. how does it address mass dehumanization and people who love machines and DOGE government systems who dehumanize people with hate messages like you are doing right now on Lemmy computers and systems?
What’s your name? My name is Stephen Alfred Gutknecht ?
Yall really need to go outside more
I literally work outside every day and talk to people from all walks of life thank you very much. Be careful in your glass house there Alice, I’ve seen the dumb shit you’ve posted around Lemmy before.
Oh, so your reply to me this week in April 2025 is the same kind of shit-talk you do all over Lemmy when you disagree with people. You dehumanize people at the drop of a hat like Donald Trump and Elon Musk do on social machines.
I literally work outside every day and talk to people from all walks of life thank you very much. Be careful in your glass house there Alice
Donald Trump does too, he “touches Grass” at the golf course and talks to people in person all day. It must be your perfect answer to Donald Trumpism mental attitudes and dehumanization of people you disagree with. It’s your approach to social machines, Lemmy, to dehumanize people that’s my concern. So Donald Trump like when he is on Twitter and Truth Social.
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.
I’m going to start by saying I’ve become more of a commenter than a poster on Lemmy
Yes, you have commented on my posting with insults and mocking.
So laugh while you can but, to all of you that find this election turn out just SO funny and promoted all your Jill Stein or whatever third party bullshit. To you, a sincere Fuck. You.
Interesting that when I say the same things over on Lemmy in “Clown Population” you attack me.
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