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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!11·21 days ago“Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.”
University Of Toronto … Marshall McLuhan
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!11·21 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)52·21 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, NIGHTMARE11·22 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)2·24 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 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!1·26 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•Surkov Screenplay "Act Two: All Too Predictable USA" - October 18, 2024 - Kamala Harris called out the Simulacra Screenplay21·28 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 Screenplay41·28 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.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•Americans (USA) Adore Eating the Shit Show. Saturday June 7, 2025 Reddit comment41·30 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 comment33·30 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)1·1 month 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)1·1 month 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.eeOPMtoCringe Nation@lemm.ee•"Even angry American voters want some level of seriousness, prudence and self-control." - David Brooks. April 19, 2011 (Cringe Nation)2·1 month ago“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951
Leadership of Nations / Leadership of Cults / Leadership of Religions / Leadership by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•‘Utterly Embarrassing’: Critics Cluck Back At President Donald Trump After Bizarre ‘Chicken’ Meltdown. Compulsive Reactionary Clowning, Total Mockery USA22·1 month 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•Billionaires met in November 2013 and one month later announced in December 2013 that they were going to troll the entire world (over gender) to wage war against Ukraine - Operation Matthew 4:191·1 month agoHow many languages do you speak fluently?
I teach James Joyce. I teach Finnegans Wake.
I teach the entire Tower of Babel. !BabelTowerARG@lemm.ee
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Clown Population@lemm.ee•Tuesday May 27, 2025 headlines. Why are social media consumers unable to recall 2014 Peter Pomerantsev "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible"? Why does nobody here USA mention Peter Pomerantsev?21·1 month 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 Unified Theory Fiction & Non-Fiction@lemm.ee•Fiction /\ NonFiction ::: "take my advice: Don't let the truth get in the way. A story's a story and anyway..."1·1 month ago“Woke to What, Exactly? James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”
George Lucas filmed education for his Star Wars audiences in the summer of 1986 and summer of 1987 instructions on understanding metaphors and memes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: You can. Very often one of the things that one learns as a member of the mystery religions is that the labyrinth, which blocks, is at the same time the way to eternal life. This is the final secret of myth—to teach you how to penetrate the labyrinth of life in such a way that its spiritual values come through.
That is the problem of Dante’s Divine Comedy, too. The crisis comes in the “middle of the way of our life,” when the body is beginning to fade, and another whole constellation of themes comes breaking into your dream world. Dante says that, in the middle year of his life, he was lost in a dangerous wood. And he was threatened there by three animals, symbolizing pride, desire, and fear. Then Virgil, the personification of poetic insight, appeared and conducted him through the labyrinth of hell, which is the place of those fixed to their desires and fears, who can’t pass through to eternity. Dante was carried through to the beatific vision of God. On a smaller scale, in this Pima Indian story, we have the same mythological image. The Pima Indians were among the simplest Indian cultures in North America. And here they have, in their own way, made use of this highly sophisticated image, which matches Dante.
BILL MOYERS: You have written that “the sign of the cross has to be looked upon as a sign of an eternal affirmation of all that ever was or shall ever be. It symbolizes not only the one historic moment on Calvary but the mystery through all time and space of God’s presence and participation in the agony of all living things.”
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: The big moment in the medieval myth is the awakening of the heart to compassion, the transformation of passion into compassion. 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…
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPMto Unified Theory Fiction & Non-Fiction@lemm.ee•Fiction /\ NonFiction ::: "take my advice: Don't let the truth get in the way. A story's a story and anyway..."1·1 month agoGeorge Lucas filmed education for his Star Wars audiences in the summer of 1986 and summer of 1987 instructions on understanding metaphors and memes.
BILL MOYERS:
"And there,” said Campbell, “is the high message of religion: ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these …’ ”
A spiritual man, he found in the literature of faith those principles common to the human spirit. But they had to be liberated from tribal lien, or the religions of the world would remain—as in the Middle East and Northern Ireland today—the source of disdain and aggression. The images of God are many, he said, calling them “the masks of eternity” that both cover and reveal “the Face of Glory.” He wanted to know what it means that God assumes such different masks in different cultures, yet how it is that comparable stories can be found in these divergent traditions—stories of creation, of virgin births, incarnations, death and resurrection, second comings, and judgment days. He liked the insight of the Hindu scripture: “Truth is one; the sages call it by many names.” All our names and images for God are masks, he said, signifying the ultimate reality that by definition transcends language and art. A myth is a mask of God, too — a metaphor for what lies behind the visible world. However the mystic traditions differ, he said, they are in accord in calling us to a deeper awareness of the very act of living itself. The unpardonable sin, in Campbell’s book, was the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake.
“Woke to What, Exactly? James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”
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Year 2014 published:
“Seen from this perspective, the great drama of Russia is not the “transition” between communism and capitalism, between one fervently held set of beliefs and another, but that during the final decades of the USSR no one believed in communism and yet carried on living as if they did, and now they can only create a society of simulations. For this remains the common, everyday psychology: the Ostankino producers who make news worshiping the President in the day” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014
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“One Story to rule them all, one Story to find them, one Story to bring them all and in the darkness bind them”