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•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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    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.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Zohran Mamdani sharply criticizes Democratic Party as he rallies with progressive challengers | CNN PoliticsEnglish
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    yeah, that’s not how you get people convinced trump is bad

    Yes. Doctor Bandy X Lee nonfiction science book education for the general public.

    The brain rot of USA is horrible. Apps have wrecked the mindsets of the nation. And Doctor Bandy X Lee’s books printed on paper can hopefully wake people to their own addiction to self-harm leadership.

    Alas, all We The People crave now is mocking into the total mockery that entertainer celebrity actor President Tony Clifton character creates. Addicts to dumb-shit on meme apps like Bluesky, Reddit, Lemmy, Truth Social, Twitter can never get enough of Trump’s NYC Andy Kaufman characters. Ultra-dumb memes and Truth Social content dumb-shit is all people desire. Nonfiction serious books from Doctor Bandy X. Lee are avoided as “nerdy, intelligent, woman”.

     

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    “When NPD and psychopathy combine, they form a pattern of behavior called malignant narcissism. This isn’t a diagnosis, but a term coined by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm and elaborated on by personality disorder expert, Otto Kernberg, to describe people so driven by feeling special that they essentially see other people as pawns in their game of kill or be killed, whether metaphorically or literally. Hitler, who murdered millions, Kim Jong-un, who’s suspected of ordering his uncle’s and brother-in-law’s deaths, and Vladimir Putin, who jokes about “liquidating journalists” — no doubt all fall in the category of malignant narcissist (among possessing other pernicious traits, like sadism, or delight in hurting others).” ― Bandy X Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. PUBLISHED October 3, 2017. Page 58.

     

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    get people convinced trump is bad

    Trump was always bad. Donald Trump was a bad leader in year 1985. Donald Trump was a bad leader in year 1995. Donald Trump was a bad leader in year 2005. Then the Apple iPhone 1 went on sale in year 2007. Then on July 6, 2011 Twitter-think one-line dumb-shit shit-postings and shit-commenting took over the hearts and minds of the United States of America We The People. Ever since July 6, 2011 dumb-shit Donald Trump content creator (President Tony Clifton SNL NYC character) became awesome hot cool meme content for brain rot Twitter app users. https://theoutline.com/post/2445/trump-s-first-real-tweet-was-on-july-6-2011

    get people convinced trump is bad

    Ever since July 6, 2011 - Twitter brain-rot convinced people badness of Trump was attractive. “convinced trump is bad” - people via Tweets are convinced bad is best!

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Zohran Mamdani sharply criticizes Democratic Party as he rallies with progressive challengers | CNN PoliticsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You misunderstand what makes for effective propaganda and what makes for preaching to the choir.

    I understand perfectly. What’s popular is entertainers. “The Apprentice” television stars, Fox News entertainers running the Pentagon. Clowns are popular. Doctor Bandy X Lee is avoided by Lemmy and Mastodon users because people have abandoned nonfiction serious books on paper in favor of one-line shit-postings and shit-commenting like Truth Social and Lemmy users do. Dumb-shit is popular, high-speed antics from Donald Trump creates engagement mocking. Doctor Bandy X Lee is a smart leader that is relevant and avoided.

     

    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.

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Zohran Mamdani sharply criticizes Democratic Party as he rallies with progressive challengers | CNN PoliticsEnglish
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    so what are you trying to say?

    I’m saying We The People are so brain-rot we don’t even notice that New York City politicians are avoiding New York City Dr. Bandy X Lee since year 2017.

    I’m saying people have abandoned nonfiction relevant serious books printed on paper. And people are incredibly defense about it instead of seeing how 3.5 second shit-commenting and shit-posting has wrecked the USA. And New York City Fox News, Rupert Murdoch media mindsets have had enormous influence into prizing ignorance.

     

    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

  • RoundSparrow@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Zohran Mamdani sharply criticizes Democratic Party as he rallies with progressive challengers | CNN PoliticsEnglish
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    Zohran Mamdani sharply criticizes Democratic Party

    I criticize all of them, and all the people who have any access to social media since year 2017.

    New York City people

    1. Zohran Mamdani … New York City

    2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”) … New York City

    3. All NYC politicians not using social media in the face of NYC Donald Trump to address the mental health crisis.

    4. New York City born Doctor Bandy X. Lee published a book October 3, 2017 that Zohran Mamdani and AOC are not aggressively promoting and quoting.

    Even the nation of Iran could be using world wide social media and Iran state media to quote and repeat Dr. Bandy X Lee’s nonfiction serious book! Alas, they post anti-intellectual Legos videos, AI slop. Dumb shit.

     

    October 3, 2017 book

    “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a 2017 book edited by Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist, containing essays by 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals describing the “clear and present danger” that US President Donald Trump’s mental health poses to the “nation and individual well being”. A second edition updated and expanded the book with additional essays. Lee maintains that the book remains strictly a public service, and all royalties were donated to the public good to remove any conflict of interest.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dangerous_Case_of_Donald_Trump

     

    Instead, we get dumb-shit memes that play right into the fiction world driven by Fox News New York City media. Rupert Murdoch fiction dominates over the 27 leaders New Yorker Doctor Bandy X Lee assembled in year 2017! Trump and Murdoch promote ignorance from NYC and nobody is standing up to the brain rot crisis, anti-intellectual social media shit-posting that avoids Dr. Lee’s intelligent leadership.

  • 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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    6 days 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!

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