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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  • 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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    11 days 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.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•What's preventing a General Strike in the United States?English
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    19 days ago

    “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.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Reddit social is a cult of compulsive MAGA USAEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Cheap Media, Cheap Truth Social society

     

    “Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes, The Fox News cable channel conveys its version of reality, while at the other end of the ideological spectrum MSNBC presents its version. They and their many counterparts on radio are more the result of an economic dynamic than a political one. Dispatching journalists into the field to gather information costs money; hiring a glib bloviator is relatively cheap, and inviting opinionated guests to vent on the air is entirely cost-free. It wouldn’t work if it weren’t popular, and audiences, it turns out, are endlessly absorbed by hearing amplified echoes of their own biases. It’s divisive and damaging to the healthy functioning of our political system, but it’s also indisputably inexpensive and, therefore, good business.” ― Ted Koppel. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. October 27, 2015. Page 13.

     

    “The long-term implications go deeper. 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, Page ???

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Reddit is an audience to MAGA.English
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    1 month ago

    Reddit comment o4d4m4m

    entry 127

    Comment URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/TrendoraX/comments/1qzrix5/bad_bunnys_super_bowl_halftime_show_performance/o4d4m4m/
    Comment ID: o4d4m4m
    Author: Flexbottom
    Bio:
    Account Created: 2024-03-09T02:08:06Z
    Link Karma: 440
    Comment Karma: 76227
    Comment Age: 11 hours ago
    Timestamp: 2026-02-09T02:29:15Z
    Score: 124 points
    Post Title: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show performance is one of the biggest FUs to Trump and MAGA that I have ever seen!
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    Love, family and community. Things MAGA hate.

    [!NOTE] :::::: Analysis_Thoughts Commentary: ======
    This headline is pure propaganda. Billionaire Jody Allen has Reddit audience eating out of her hand. The sportswashing of Trump and the music-washing of Trump and MAGA. “Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show performance is one of the biggest FUs to Trump and MAGA that I have ever seen!” fandom of hate-watching Trump and MAGA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate-watching

    Trump is an entertainer. This real-world Russian winning hearts and minds… isn’t a TV show. This is real world health care and real world people having their lives wrecked by Jody Allen’s investments and holdings and Trump’s investments and holdings. Bad Bunny is part of the system, hiring humans to be trees, because we paved over all the real trees! This is all rectangle simulation. Square logic, blockhead thinking. Paul Allen’s Microsoft legacy of sports fandoms beings programmed with music museum and song arrangement patterns for Wired World licensed copyrighted cults. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19970611/2544107/the-enigmatic-paul-allen----everyone-knows-what-he-does-but-few-really-know-who-he-is “Carlos Santana and Allen himself”

    OPERA_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU Giving it all away, Reddit. Why do you want to give it all away to your simulation … billionaire content? This isn’t a fuck-you to Trump, it is not resisting, it is praising. Surkov won since March 2013, NATO lost. “Tree museum”, is what the Super Bowl Half Time show had, people dressed in plastics. Simulation of trees. Simulacra dancing. 40,319,373 views June 16, 2009

    OPERA_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZ8ossU4pc Images on a screen, fake trees, simulation. Rectangle stage. Let’s bring in the Russian resistance. 5,211,627 views March 28, 2012 - price to pay and a consequence. Tree museum, men given every luxury and medical army to service their political team drama. Sports-washing our wealth-lords asset-lords copyright-lords intellectual property-lords, Jody Allen Patton.

    Yes, Alphabet Google YouTube and GitHub Microsoft are in the system. Bluesky is in the system. I can not change these systems on my own. My writing is public domain. Better to be a naked screaming person in agony than normalize this bullshit and living in denial of the billionaire Rupert Murdoch successes. Staring into the mind-fuck of Reddit is horror. Reddit is mind-wrecking. Reddit is the horror show that the gifted and skilled technical people blow their minds out with. Surkov won using Reddit voluntary fans / fandoms of hate-watching. Surkov students won by tuning minds to favor mocking and hate above all else. Billionaires are feeding shit into Reddit audience minds, right here, right now, and it keeps accelerating.

    What billionaires do is not give families something to celebrate, they rip apart relationships. They turn it into a power and wealth concentration system. A theme park for worship of the power and copyright and content creation cartels. Mecca, Quran, Mohammad science fiction storytelling of year 635. That is the “Old World Order” that the Free Masons founding fathers were educating us about with a pyramid on the Nile river symbolism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novus_ordo_seclorum We The People have let Russia, Surkov students, push us (we, our minds) so far into monomyth mythology patterns that We The People, We The Fandoms, can no longer see the media simulations we are living under. Surkov won, USA defeated, hearts and minds lost… since March of year 2013. SEE_ALSO https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•USA nation of 0.34 billion people in world of over 8 billion people. Reddit <===> Trump White House. Feedback looping mechanismsEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Reddit comment o4e6c54

    entry 125

    Comment URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1qzwpy6/jd_vance_ridiculed_for_40car_motorcade_taking_him/o4e6c54/
    Comment ID: o4e6c54
    Author: BuzzBuzzington3
    Bio:
    Account Created: 2019-01-24T16:47:27Z
    Link Karma: 603
    Comment Karma: 7483
    Comment Age: 3 hours ago
    Timestamp: 2026-02-09T06:41:15Z
    Score: 2282 points
    Post Title: JD Vance ridiculed for 40-car motorcade taking him down tiny Italian street
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    You can smell the fear from here

    [!NOTE] :::::: Analysis_Thoughts Commentary: ======
    Top-upvoted comment. Twitter-length short-message mindset. Eating right out of the hands of the Kremlin and White House. This is a Reddit community eating the Surkovian onions. Eating the Onion. Incredibly gullible Reddit audience that will not turn to Dr. Bandy X. Lee or Peter Pomerantsev teaching and education. SEE: https://github.com/RocketDerp/April14_2025/blob/main/Quotes_Pile/Reddit2025A/Surkovian_Onion_Eating.md

    Every hour of every day, Reddit is sane-washing JD Vance, hundreds of millions of MAGA cult members, Putin, Trump, Elon Musk. Over and over, Reddit falls for the same antics politics and entirely misses the point of why over-dramatic antics are constantly appearing on the front page of /r/All by the White House.

    Reddit users have been manipulated and targeted by the Internet Research Agency… https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301643 Useful Idiots is the term that Russia uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot (not my insult, I strive pretty hard to write things like “avoids nonfiction learning” and “unable to focus on using Google Search and finding Peter Pomerantsev’s information” … if you want a better-quality writing than my shit English. Calling people banal “idiot” is even something Marshall McLuhan addressed https://youtu.be/2JIj0Bqbdhk?t=156 in one of his filmed interviews. Mocking “idiot”… is a thought-terminating cliché.).

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    1. Putin, MAGA, White House, Musk does some bold antics action

    2. Reddit audience posts image, quote, or mocking of the antics

    3. Reddit community sane-washes the situation by prizing it as entertainment and amusement

    4. Reddit members crack-jokes to sanewash the USA society in total. That this is just “Internet culture” of how people have fun. Jokes, falsehoods, fictions, make-up scenarios, make-up quotes, mirroring Trump’s writing style, talking about skin color (brown, black, orange). Make fan-fiction about the situation.

    5. ALWAYS avoided: Peter Pomerantsev’s writing, videos, etc. Questioning the pattern witnessed over and over. Pondering and questioning: if maybe the crowds that gather every single day to mock and insult Trump aren’t a form of intentional population control. Imprisoned fandom…compulsive brainwashing into always joking and always mocking and always hating MAGA and Trump.

    6. ALWAYS avoiding: reflecting on what Donald Trump actually is good at. Instead of listing all of Trump’s failures: bankruptcy list, divorce and failed marriages, TACO trade deals, failed Trump university / steak seller / on and on. FACE THE ONE THING Trump is known for grifting, tricking, actor, acting, acting like an actor. An actor who is faking being an actor, a grift of acting itself. Entertainer, Reality TV. Like Trump is playing in the film “Jackass” as a character for an audience. Trump’s ONE GOOD SKILL is getting on camera every 90 minutes of every day and rage-bating Reddit!

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    Repeating number 5: … pondering… Are we living inside a Reddit screen game of grinding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_(video_games) away… sane-washing jokes and behaving not as political actors, but an audience to a Reality TV theater and circus performances? Does Trump behave like a fiction character, President Tony Clifton of SNL NYC? Are we gullible and falling for the acting of a Tony Clifton actor? Are we “eating the onion” just like Fox News audience does in red states / rural population and not recognizing that Fox News is a fiction entertainment show like SNL Weekend Update?

    • “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. SEE_ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUGwC9jXCM

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    THE SIMULATION: “You can smell the fear from here” (this Reddit comment being linked)

    THE REALITY: “Those media addicts will do anything to put on a show, and American MAGA eats it up. 40 cars is over the top, antics to get on the front page of Reddit, and look, it is on the top front page of /r/All”

    THE REALITY: The only “fear” they have is that their acts and antics and investments in 40 motorcade cars doesn’t have a film audience to the blockbuster show. That it doesn’t dominate the headlines like a new Taylor Swift song release. That the tickets and #1 rating on Reddit, that your MAGA absurd comedy and surreal humor show is a flop.

    IF YOU ARE MAKING ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS: Borat film or Jackass film, taking ICE and massive motorcades to Italy is right up your scripted ally of antics entertainment.

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    There is no self-awareness in the Reddit audience. The Reddit media cult is reading The Onion and falling hook, line and sinker that it is “fear” and not in fact political theater, entertainment politics, Surkovian.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Moscow won. October 2011English
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    1 month ago

    “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

     

    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, 1995, page 38

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Ablative Armor is Mock Armor - Surkovian USAEnglish
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    2 months ago

    LOL cow

     

    The Trump family is the greatest entertainers in all human history. Donald J. Trump is a acting leader of all actors and comedians in the USA. Social media commenting comedians follow Trump’s every move and shake and follow his mockery leadership. We are a LOL Cow Milking nation. Surkov won since March 2013.

    Every media system in the world is running at full speed milking Trump for LOL jokes. Ablative Armor is Mock Armor. The media systems adore the mocking that social meme-thinking mindsets provide. Every HDTV news network, every newspaper. they are all mocking away at their audience of how funny and entertaining Donald Trump family is for content creation.

    The influencer of all influencers. The LOLCOW of all cows. USA nation is a joke to milk over and over for a decade. Surkov won since March of year 2013.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialOPMtoMind Dump@midwest.social•Ablative Armor is Mock Armor - Surkovian USAEnglish
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    2 months ago
    • “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

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