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    No, I want a straight answer from you

    You are an addict to commenting and clearly can’t read between the lines that you are harassing me, doing active measures, be it a useful banal agent or conscripted agent.

    I stand up to Elon Musk openly with my real name. I stand up to Truth Social Donald Trump openly with my name. I stand up to Kremlin Internet Research Agency openly with my name. I stand up to Rupert Murdoch openly with my name. I stand up to the owners of Reddit with my real name. I stand up to the owners of Facebook and Instagram with my real name. There are so many cults to all these media systems that I would be incredibly gullible to take your negging interaction at face value. https://www.axios.com/2024/10/19/musk-ackman-election-misinformation

    What I know is you won’t stop commenting at me as a form of denial of service attack. Many low-effort commenting in a remote, ignored, area “corned” in a section of Lemmy commenting. This is what cult members do. This is what Fox News HDTV audiences behave like when you discuss cult addiction to the electric media systems orchestrated by the Rupert Murdoch family. People so attracted to their amusement entertainment media systems that they refuse to exit the simulation and will become aggressive and persistent against those criticizing media addiction itself.

     

    Neil Postman year 1985

    “What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. 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; a culture-death is a clear possibility. In America, Orwell’s prophecies are of small relevance, but Huxley’s are well under way toward being realized.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. year 1985. Page 156

    President Ronald Reagan second term in White House year 1985, the last “entertainer President” before Donald J. Trump (Reality TV star entertainer).

    In USA 2025, what you will typically witness is media addicts who for over 10 years, since June 16, 2015 - constantly repeat “Trump is a moron”, “Trump is an idiot”, over and over and over in perpetual rounds of mocking back and forth at touch media devices.

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      I read your links and taking them in, you’re completely ignoring mine because of your pre-convinced notions supplied by the US government(Marxism/Communism == bad) you are existing in an echo chamber and not even releasing it, read the books your governments as deemed Verboten

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        you’re completely ignoring mine because of your pre-convinced notions supplied by the US government(Marxism/Communism == bad)

        You are anti-woke. You fixate on money, economics, casinos and capitalist Trump as a topic posting on Lemmy. Us. vs. Them. You believe in having to have an enemy instead of confronting the addictions to fantasy fiction storytelling (Lemmy memes are fantasy fiction, Rupert Murdoch Fox News is fantasy fiction, Truth Social is fantasy fiction, Reddit is a cult of ficiton that mocks nonfiction, Surkov students create fantasy fiction, Kremlin Internet Research Agency fed fantasy fiction).

        You are stuck on economics fiction fantasy storytelling. Inside the simulations.

         

         

        A man who is a Joycean, published a book on Finnegans Wake. Married to a wife, Jean Erdman, who is also a Joycean and published a dance opera on Finnegans Wake. A married couple of Joycean Wake Woke experts;

        Campbell: Economic Interpretation Myth

        Joseph Campbell
        Lecture I.1.1 - The Celebration of Life
        Date: March 1, 1967
        Venue: The Cooper Union

        Now, I just want to speak about the phases in the development of any mythology. How did it start, and what happens to it?

        I think one could say this: that all of the high cultures and low cultures and primitive cultures, and charming simple cultures, and great big enormous ones have grown out of myths. They are founded on myths. And what these myths have given has been inspiration for aspiration.

        The economic interpretation of history is for the birds. Economics is itself a function of aspiration. It’s what people aspire to that creates the field in which economics works. And people who don’t have any aspirations—you know, the problem of a businessman who can’t get people to want anything. It’s the want; it’s the aspiration. And what is wanted is not simply one, two or three meals a day and a bed—that’s not enough. It’s got to be much more than that to make a life.

        Now, where do these aspirations come from? They come from a very wonderful, childlike thing: fascination. You know, if you wanted to make money today… I think I know economists, but I’ll bet the thing to do would be to invest your money in something like cameras — things that people play with, things that they are fascinated by. These fascinations are the creations of new activities.

        And when we look at the old cultures we can see — and some of it is very strange to see indeed…

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            What lead you to typing/formatting your comments in this way?

            Lemmy. “The Medium” == Lemmy. “The Message” is dominated by the venue, Lemmy.

            March 1967, Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto

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                I don’t see how Lemmy lead to this when you type like no one I’ve ever seen on Lemmy.

                Which is why you are fixated on me, target fixation. Unique and free thinking, outside the Lemmy cult of memes and “Trump stupid!!! Trump diapers!!!” chanting. Cult of media systems. Media cultists. The entire World Wide Web is a race to the bottom of competitive high-speed ignorance now and it is going to blow up in our faces / screen faces. July 6, 2011 the crisis went mainstream via Trump Twitter. Q2 2013 the Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica converged. Now ignorance, mocking and mockery, anti-goodness wins all debates of any topic. Total power of Trumpism and Surkovian governing.

                 

                • “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Year 1995.

                 

                you type like no one I’ve ever seen on Lemmy.

                That’s the point. And you are drawn to intimidate me off the platform. Lemmy community is anti-woke, anti Finnegans Wake Woke. Anti Marshall McLuhan woke. Conformity central.

                 

                Five years after Carl Sagan’s year 1995 book (and after Sagan died):

                Howard Bloom

                When conformity enforcers overwhelm diversity generators, all of us are in trouble. Spartans – fundamentalists, militia groups, fascists, and ultra-nationalists – can freeze the machinery of collective mind. A shutdown of urban diversity devastates that exercise of collective acumen we call an economy. Christian Fundamentalism has been shown by the research of sociologists Alfred Darnell and Darren E. Sherkat to retard the learning of children raised within its grasp. Darnell and Sherkat sum up a common Fundamentalist attitude in the following words: “No schooling is better than secular schooling.” Then there’s the paralysis of thought which outright battle brings. When World War I erupted, Sigmund Freud was horrified by the sudden “narrow-mindedness shown by [even] the best intellects, their obduracy, their inaccessibility to the most forcible arguments.” Such closings of the mind may explain why authoritarians are prone to ignore it when their approaches flop. They often goose-step from one year to another rigidly glued to backfiring ways.

                Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
                Chapter: The Kidnap of Mass Mind
                Page: 203-204
                Howard Bloom
                Published: August 14, 2000

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                  Which is why you are fixated on me, target fixation

                  2 comments is hardly a fixation.

                  That’s the point. And you are drawn to intimidate me off the platform.

                  I’d prefer you don’t leave your erratic typing is very interesting. I am very curious what lead to such a style.

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                    2 comments is hardly a fixation.

                    You are not talking about the subjects, you are talking about me: Stephen Alfred Gutknecht. Fixated on the messenger. www.GutknechtAutism.org website if you want to better understand me. Which is not this Lemmy posting about Las Vegas, Nevada economics.

                    I am very curious what lead to such a style.

                    “Hyperlexia is a syndrome characterized by a child’s precocious ability to read. It was initially identified by Norman E. Silberberg and Margaret C. Silberberg (1967), who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read, typically before the age of five. They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word-decoding ability than their reading comprehension levels.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia

                    … "They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word-decoding ability than their reading comprehension levels.” … https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Page_581 James Joyce, Finnegans Wake… You Too can learn to be Word (John 1:1) Woke, Metaphor Woke. Study Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966 - it can happen to you!

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        I read your links and taking them in

        You sure do not demonstrate it. Your own commenting media addiction is clear evidence I have been analyzing in your face to you. Your fixation on the high-speed TCP/IP delivery of content. Your inability to see you are harassing me and badgering me. Cornered me in an empty area of Lemmy to intimidate me and belittle everything Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman ever said regarding electronic media systems (Lemmy). And turn everyone away from Dr. Bandy X Lee’s 27 leaders and their extreme relevance to August 2026 world wide DANGER.

        you’re completely ignoring mine because of your pre-convinced notions supplied by the US government(Marxism/Communism == bad)

        Your shallow and superficial concerns. Your fixation on this topic. Casinos in Vegas, Donald Trump casinos, economic systems. You do not grasp the “wake” of James Joyce’s 'Finn’s Hotel" year 1923 and Finnegans Wake May 4, 1939. You are anti-woke anti-wokeness and playing the Communism vs. Capitalism game.

        Tim Finnegan Wokeness is not something you have demonstrated that you comprehend in any way.