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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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RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto James Joyce Experience @lemm.ee•Bloomsday is Here, Bloomsday Night Before, Bloomsday Eve, Romans 11:32, Bible verse Romans 11:32 - Hell's Bells Are Ringing!!!! Humanity Calls out God!11·4 days agoSkywalker Ranch California
Summer of 1986 or Summer of 1987
Age 82 or Age 83"That is the whole problem of the Grail stories, compassion for the wounded king. And out of that you also get the notion that Abelard offered as an explanation of the crucifixion: that the Son of God came down into this world to be crucified to awaken our hearts to compassion, and thus to turn our minds from the gross concerns of raw life in the world to the specifically human values of self-giving in shared suffering. In that sense the wounded king, the maimed king of the Grail legend, is a counterpart of the Christ. He is there to evoke compassion and thus bring a dead wasteland to life. There is a mystical notion there of the spiritual function of suffering in this world. The one who suffers is, as it were, the Christ, come before us to evoke the one thing that turns the human beast of prey into a valid human being. That one thing is compassion. This is the theme that James Joyce takes over and develops in Ulysses—the awakening of his hero, Stephen Dedalus, to manhood through a shared compassion with Leopold Bloom. That was the awakening of his heart to love and the opening of the way.
In Joyce’s next great work, Finnegans Wake, there is a mysterious number that constantly recurs. It is 1132. It occurs as a date, for example, and inverted as a house address, 32 West 11th Street. In every chapter, some way or another, 1132 appears. When I was writing A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, I tried every way I knew to imagine, “What the dickens is this number 1132?” Then I recalled that in Ulysses, while Bloom is wandering about the streets of Dublin, a ball drops from a tower to indicate noon, and he thinks, “The law of falling bodies, 32 feet per sec per sec.”"
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMtoHybrid War Lost@lemm.ee•Internet Trolls Around the World Are Mocking Donald Trump's Military Birthday Parade (Surkov Total Mockery, Hybrid War Win for Putin, Humiliated USA)52·4 days agoNATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.
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Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).
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Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. “For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That’s what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation.” “the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments”. “It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia’s own institutions – including their closed-circuit television cameras.”
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Putin and Surkov’s “Operation Matthew 4:19” global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.
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Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. “At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations”
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RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto James Joyce Experience @lemm.ee•June 16, 2015 - TEN YEARS AGO today - June 16 - Bloomsday - James Joyce Bloomsday - the Nightmare of History was Formally Announced, Trumpery was NEVER FUNNY NEVER AMUSING, NIGHTMARE11·4 days agoBlooming Of Donald J Trump
Bloomsday of the Donald Trump White House. June 16, 2015. TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO.
Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place on a Thursday in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
“So snug he was in his hotel premises sumptuous
But soon we’ll bonfire all his trash, tricks and trumpery”
. - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Page 44
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMtoHybrid War Lost@lemm.ee•President Donald Trump accused of 'cognitive collapse' as he issues confusing defense of Putin and Russia (mind-fucked by Russia since March 2013 IRA before Ukraine invasion, MAGA all, not only Trump)2·6 days agoNATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.
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Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).
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Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. “For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That’s what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation.” “the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments”. “It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia’s own institutions – including their closed-circuit television cameras.”
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Putin and Surkov’s “Operation Matthew 4:19” global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.
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Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. “At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations”
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RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMtoBabel Tower ARG@lemm.ee•"In the beginning we recall that the word was hurled" - Electric Torah metaphors of verse John 1:1 - "Babel Tower ARG" language words - My Civic DittyDeutsch1·7 days ago“Aber, wie ein englischer Autor geistreich bemerkte, derjenige, welcher dem Feinde statt des Pfeiles ein Schimpfwort entgegenschleuderte, war der Begründer der Civilisation, so ist das Wort der Ersatz für die That und unter Umständen der einzige Ersatz (Beichte).” - “Ueber den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene”, 1893
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Mass Brain Damage@lemm.ee•The Death of Intelligence: Why Modern Society Celebrates Stupidity. Part Two - "Mass Brain Damage"1·8 days agoI wasn’t going to make a part two i was going to go on with my life maybe get into bird watching or soap making but here we are… because apparently when you post a video gently suggesting that the US might be collapsing under the weight of its own stupidity people have opinions a lot of them and some of those opinions are what’s the word terrifying so if you haven’t seen the original video I made titled The Death of Intelligence you can find it easily on this channel.
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okay let’s buckle up. now look I I’m truly grateful for all the feedback i mean really it’s been amazing even the guy who called me a soybased nihilist doom clown or whatever it was I’m paraphrasing. I mean hilarious i definitely laughed out loud but also inaccurate and kind of harsh i digress so this time we’re going to go a little deeper this isn’t just about the vibe of dumbness anymore we’re going to dig deeper into where this anti-intellectual come anti-intellectualism comes from historically psychologically and systemically we’re going to talk about the false equivalency thing the one where people said “How dare you imply that both political parties are contributing to this?”
Well you’re right i mean they’re not contributing equally but also that’s not the point we’ll get there and yes we’ll address the people upset about the Reddit versus epidemiology thing i still believe science wins but I get it, greed ruins everything even truth. But more on that in a bit and finally we need to talk about the hundreds of people who dropped Dunning Krueger effect in the comments like they just discovered the holy grail of human psychology which to be fair they kind of did because it explains a lot but when everyone thinks everyone else is the Dunning Krueger person yeah we’re still in a pile of trouble so let’s rewind let’s take this back not to the birth of civilization that’s a different video but to the actual historical roots of anti-intellectualism because this isn’t new. In fact, Richard Hoffadder Puliter Prizewinning historian wrote a book called Anti-intellectualism in American Life. He wrote this way back in 1963 which by the way I highly recommend reading so that was over 60 years ago this isn’t some new Tik Tok trend where people think facts are elitist and everything smells like lavender vape and despair this has roots ugly tangled generational roots so Hoffadder traced anti-intellectualism through American culture like a coroner detailing the cause of death he pointed out how early American Protestantism already distrusted intellectual elites and the thinking was something like “We don’t need your fancy Harvard degrees just give us the Bible and a pitchfork and we’ll figure it out.”
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Now in some ways that attitude of instinct over intellect it never really left and don’t get me wrong instinct it’s a very useful mechanism in short-term context but it doesn’t really function as a long-term strategic intellectual system which is what you need for a functioning society so in the 19th and early 20th century the US industrialized but the working class wasn’t exactly encouraged to think critically they were trained to obey repeat and of course consume and intelligence became a liability in factories and eventually in politics and when the Cold War era arrived intellectuals were even seen as dangerous subversive communist adjacent eggheheads people who thought too much were accused of being unamerican and God forbid you don’t want to be unamerican that’s worse than being French. Just kidding no disrespect to the French
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but here’s the kicker this wasn’t just a spontaneous cultural shift it was engineered propaganda media consolidation corporate influence you know these things didn’t just accidentally make people stupider it was more efficient to keep people emotionally reactive and intellectually passive and critical thinking doesn’t sell Bud Light or get you to buy five Snuggies at 3:00 a.m
so now we’re swimming in that soup drowning in it really we have a society built on algorithms that reward anger echo chambers that reinforce our own ignorance and we have leaders who literally brag about not reading books it’s not that people can’t think it’s that they’re constantly punished for trying and that’s where we are a culture that simultaneously demands expertise and then mocks it that screams “Do your own research” but never reads past the headline that hates elites but only the ones who read things.
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Okay so let’s talk about the two-party system because apparently I touched a nerve last time by saying that both political parties are contributing to the dumbification of society some people said “Whoa whoa whoa false equivalency one side is clearly worse.”
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•President Donald Trump has social media users eating out of his hand. The Donald Trump hate club can not resist Tony Clifton mocking, insulting Tony Clifton. Trump pwns social media screen gamers!1·8 days agoClown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a “basket case of clowning around” on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a screen game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It’s the entire population of Untied States of America.
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Counter Surkov Governing techniques / methods@lemm.ee•Announce: "Counter Surkov Act Two" - Monday, June 9, 2025. Kremlin Simulacras2·10 days agoWe Are Currently at Surkov Stage 8 / Surkov Stage Eight
Counter Vlad Surkov techniques and methods
Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014
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Peter Pomerantsev September 9, 2014: Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
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Adam Curtis, BBC, December 31, 2014: On The “Contradictory Vaudeville” Of Post-Modern Politics - “What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin’s advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way.”
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Book reading from December 5, 2014 on the subject by Peter Pomerantsev
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RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMtoMasturbatory Egoism@lemm.ee•New York Congressman Brands Marjorie Taylor Greene 'Incompetent and Unqualified' After She Revealed She Didn't Read 'Big Beautiful Bill' - Masturbatory Egoism2·10 days ago“Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?” … Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: “I am smarter than Donald Trump”, “I am smarter than Elon Musk”, “I am smarter than Russia”, “They have no clue”, “those people are clueless”, “they are so stupid-dumb-idot”. Promoting anti-education, anti-learning, and total mockery of NATO / USA. The very low low bars of popular screen game show of people declaring they are smarter than others
… See Also: !BackTo1985@lemm.ee community.
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•Surkov Screenplay "Act Two: All Too Predictable USA" - October 18, 2024 - Kamala Harris called out the Simulacra Screenplay21·10 days agoSee also: !CounterSurkov@lemm.ee Lemmy list.
Or change over to Mastodon path:
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•Surkov Screenplay "Act Two: All Too Predictable USA" - October 18, 2024 - Kamala Harris called out the Simulacra Screenplay41·10 days agoYou see the world through your cynical eyes. Sharon Stone Was Right in 2024.
YouTube video Time Index + 92 seconds
Counter Surkov Act Two
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Such A Sinister Plan is “OpM419”
3,108,460 views July 29, 2018
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMtoAssert Good@lemm.ee•Assert Good, Day 36. Please teach remedial morality to USA, please teach to Americans what they have not learned or understood. Quotes from Malala Yousafzai2·12 days ago“Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.”
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•Americans (USA) Adore Eating the Shit Show. Saturday June 7, 2025 Reddit comment41·12 days agoare playing out a storyline to keep you all distracted while they get their ducks in line to financially rape America
That’s exactly what BBC’s Adam Curtis called out New Years Eve 2014.
December 31, 2014
Time-index into YouTube video link at 185 seconds:
https://youtu.be/h9_L9GRRsQo?t=185
“But the real epicenter of this non-linear world is the economy” - Adam Curtis, 2014
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•Americans (USA) Adore Eating the Shit Show. Saturday June 7, 2025 Reddit comment33·12 days agoClown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a “basket case of clowning around” on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a screen game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It’s the entire population of Untied States of America.
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•Martin Scorsese no longer watches films in cinemas due to audience bad behaviour (Media consumers have become a Clown Population, Media Junkies, Media Mania)1·13 days agoAs Rick Roderick in 1993 explained about Jean Boulevard - the USA society is the leader in Hollywood / cultural behaviors. USA originated social media.
The entire population has adopted Twitter as behavior role models. It isn’t just “on the Internet” that people behave like this. Donald Trump has been a role model for children since November 2012. Fox News is a role model. Little short Twitter-reaction comments are now on every media platform.
It is not just “Chicken Jockey” parties by children in the Minecraft movie, it is also adults - in The Villages Florida I have seen Twitter thinking and Twitter behaviors first hand in elderly over age 60. Mob mentality abounds. People high on memes and electric media, high on notifcations, egomania.
Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a “basket case of clowning around” on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a screen game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It’s the entire population of Untied States of America.
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMtoHybrid War Lost@lemm.ee•Putin / Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud (Hybrid War Lost to Russia, Surkovian, Edward Snowden subconscious play)1·13 days agoNATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.
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Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).
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Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. “For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That’s what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation.” “the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments”. “It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia’s own institutions – including their closed-circuit television cameras.”
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Putin and Surkov’s “Operation Matthew 4:19” global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.
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Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. “At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations”
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RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMtoJoke is On@lemm.ee•Reddit analysis - "The Joke is On USA" - simulacra of resistance / mass psychosis denial / forest for trees crisis - "Mind Virus" Elon Musk denial / 256D Surkov Chess denial1·14 days agoReddit front-page mind-fuck
Pro White House pro Kremlin talking point that only girls are emotional and not able to govern (Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris) and that men are not responsible for emotions.
This is Surkov, Surkovian, Conservative Intentional 2013 playbook. Gender topics, transsexual mind-fuck, during Pride month.
All this is Reddit society casting this / normalizing this - as entertainment Reality Twitter / Reality Reddit White House. Surkovian.
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“Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.”
University Of Toronto … Marshall McLuhan