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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.
RoundSparrow on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/roundsparrow.bsky.social
Brain Rot Society 47
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Can you get this publicc message, or do your server operators censor this too?
geez are they back to this.
Yes. Trying to appeal to Red Lobster all you can eat buffet society.
Cuba also seems to be back on the table. Canada they are making trade deals favorable to people supporting USA domination.
Endless buffet of dumb-shit memes, stupid Fox News, ultra-dumb Newsmax, ignorance apps to dine upon.
Atheists don’t read the bible. Christians don’t do it either.
Yes, atheists are reading avoidant. Proud in non-reading. Anti-comprehend mindsets.
Yes, Christians have a literacy crisis too. Anti-understanding.
That's the entire point of this posting. Commenting literacy crisis.
“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
It’s because the Bible also tells you to stone women
yes, this is common in science fiction storytelling to have bad ideas.
Do you avoid teaching Star Wars literacy because Darth Vader kills entire planets with the Death Star?
So many confused atheists who can't grasp literacy of media that is raging crisis of MAGA USA 2026. Attraction to badness in all media systems.
You might as well talk about quoting harry potter at people for all the good it’ll do.
Yha, the literacy crisis is also Harry Potter books. Do you somehow think the Bible is a magical book?
They can't read Lord of the Rings correctly either. Elon Musk has demonstrated this.
You seem like you value Elon Musk literacy.
October 31, 2025
https://www.wired.com/...
Why the fuck would I bother quoting something I have zero interest in?
If you have zero interest in it, why did you reply comment on Lemmy with your raging? You sound like you are abused by Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Donald Trurmp and in denial of your suffering at trillionaire wealth systems.
Boot licker? Anti-literacy anti-educaiton?
These people have a raging literacy problem and can not comprehend science fiction storytelling reading. It is wrecking the entire world that they can not read books properly. It isn't only this one 2,000 year old book that the reading literacy comprehension crisis is about. They can't read many critical and important books with proper understanding. They are shit-reading shit-commenting shit-posting addicts lead by Twitter media Elon Musk and Truth Social shit-platforms.
“If you worked for a newspaper in New York in the 1980s, you had to write about Trump.” - SUSAN MULCAHY. May 2016
::: “If you served and worked for a Social Media platform in USA in the 2020s, you had to ShitPost about Trump.” :::
NewsWeek : New book alleges treasury secretary called Zelensky ‘special-needs child’
https://www.newsweek.com/...
Meme Drunks : The Truth Social Experience, Joe Rogan Experience
Americans get dumbstruck drunk as fuck on Truth Social memes
Americans can't hold their god damn shit-posting shit-commenting and wreck the fucking World Wide Web
USA is Twitter Think Nation and Joe Rogan Experience that seeks ultra-dumb information systems.
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
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/...
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
“The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality,” Charlie Warzel wrote “I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is.” - October 19, 2024 - America’s gullibility crisis, Zachary Basu
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"Trump, the Tony Clifton of presidents, has proved equally adept at sustaining the put-on. He never breaks character. He never laughs at his own..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...
So many gullible people in USA who eat it up and don't bother with this July 3, 2020 article. People so reactionary to Donald Trump, so living in the now of high speed media, that they have forgotten Andy Kaufman NYC SNL and do not even recognize Donald Trump is a television star, an entertainer, playing (play acting, performance art) a character!
Americans have proven they are the most gullible nation on Earth. What exactly do people in USA believe attracts wealth and power for Trump? His good looks and healthy body? Tony Clifton is fat-suit character, Trump is a master of Kaufman's creation!
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".
"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.
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/...
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!
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.
“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.
"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
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.
"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
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.
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.
Zohran Mamdani ... New York City
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ("AOC") ... New York City
All NYC politicians not using social media in the face of NYC Donald Trump to address the mental health crisis.
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.
"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/...
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.
September 26, 2016
"Is Donald Trump Really Just Andy Kaufman in Disguise?"
" I believe that Kaufman created his Donald Trump character sometime around 1972, as a precursor to his equally jarring Vegas lounge singer, Tony Clifton..."
https://www.newsweek.com/...
September 26, 2016
"Is Donald Trump Really Just Andy Kaufman in Disguise?"
" I believe that Kaufman created his Donald Trump character sometime around 1972, as a precursor to his equally jarring Vegas lounge singer, Tony Clifton..."
https://www.newsweek.com/...
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:
“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.
"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.
"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
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!
My god.
Duke University
Texan Rick Roderick, Professor
"And sure enough I found someone in Durham who had been… you know, a lot of North Carolina people go to the war, I found a young pilot and he said oh, that no, it was very exciting and then he went on to explain to me how the sights that they used in order to, you know, fire their smart bombs were just like the games in the arcade that he grew up with. He said, you know, no way in the world could he have had better practice than he got in those arcades to fire smart bombs. I mean, it had passed him by that the real had happened even though he was really there.
I talked to a woman who had been on the ground, in a jeep for most of it. And she went “Oh the desert is so big and the sand…”, she said, “…but I really didn’t get a feel for until I got home and saw what my husband had taped”. Why? Because the little individual actors sink into insignificance compared to the damn spectacle of the thing. The spectacle of it. ... https://youtu.be/z0MUurcsVLs?t=1339 ... I mean, when humans were less important than God we could understand because he built everything. When we are less important than a Nintendo we get confused. That’s when we start thinking that we are under siege. It’s when Billy says “Oh yes, you can kill mum and dad but leave the Nintendo”, then we are rightfully upset.
The postmodern trajectory leaves us in a situation where drawing the line between the real and the unreal is no longer merely philosophical but a practical day-to-day issue. See, this is what I want to drive home. We are not off in some fairy land, this is a practical day-to-day issue of figuring out what’s a simulation and what’s not. Is this guy really an insurance salesman or is he here to rob me? You know, I mean… this is no longer Cartesian doubt that one has to conjure up in a meditation. This is a wide radical doubt about the very ground beneath our feet and the nature of whether it’s real or not."
Year 1993
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