One plant, half the salad aisle

Plot

“We like to think of ourselves as immune from influence or our cognitive biases, because we want to feel like we are in control, but industries like alcohol, tobacco, fast food, and gaming all know we are creatures that are subject to cognitive and emotional vulnerabilities. And tech has caught on to this with its research into “user experience,” “gamification,” “growth hacking,” and “engagement” by activating ludic loops and reinforcement schedules in the same way slot machines do. So far, this gamification has been contained to social media and digital platforms, but what will happen as we further integrate our lives with networked information architectures designed to exploit evolutionary flaws in our cognition? Do we really want to live in a “gamified” environment that engineers our obsessions and plays with our lives as if we are inside its game?” ― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, chapter 12 “Revelations”, page 235, year 2019

“Chaos and disruption, I later learned, are central tenets of Bannon’s animating ideology. Before catalyzing America’s dharmic rebalancing, his movement would first need to instill chaos through-out society so that a new order could emerge. He was an avid reader of a computer scientist and armchair philosopher who goes by the name Mencius Moldbug, a hero of the alt-right who writes long-winded essays attacking democracy and virtually everything about how modern societies are ordered. Moldbug’s views on truth influenced Bannon, and what Cambridge Analytica would become. Moldbug has written that “nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth,” and Bannon embraced this. “Anyone can believe in the truth,” Moldbug writes, “to believe in nonsense is an unforgettable demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.” ― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, page 85. year 2019

You write like an AI bot

You comment in low-effort ignorance. You are so in love with your touch meme app and touch meme device that you dehumanize people based on language alone. You are horrible-values person, MAGA USA mindsets cultist who dehumanizes people all day every day in superficial attractions.

You use Beehaw to tell people their language sounds like AI when they criticize memorized meme-thinking of humans who use meme sites like Beehaw. You approach strangers in public and tell them that their English usage is subhuman, non-human, they are non-persons. Beehaw values! You got upvoted too.

You can’t imagine I am the source of A.I. programming, a professional technical writer / published author. You can only imagine that the chicken came after the EGG, LLM billionaire programming mindsets of who created social media society.

You replied to context : “American Cyber forces escaped the Russian Saint Petersburg Internet Research Agency? Hell NO! I was The Apprentice employee of Telos Federal Systems of Santa Monica California at age 16 year 1986 and you are a banalizatioon agent of dumb-shit meme-thinking.”

LOL LMAO #comedy #laughs

never ever Donald #Trump is jokes too far. Always more laughs at Donald

1. USA We The People population pop worship desire ignorance. Cult of ignorance. Dumb-shit rules USA society now

2. Trump, Donald Trump memes signal messages ultra dumb-shit ignorance and EVERYONE ALL follow USA

Dude. Did you completely miss the point?

No. You can not read between the lines. You are meme-thinking ignorance-seeking Ignorance worshiper cultist. You are a chuclehead. LOLhead. Meme thinker.

SONG LYRICS: “And if you read between the lines, You’d know that I’m just tryin’ to understand” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiU2lrGnT7U … Gordon Lightfoot wrote the classic song “If You Could Read My Mind” in 1969 and recorded it in November 1969 at SunWest Studios in Hollywood, California.

• Gordon Lightfoot Canadian (born in Orillia, Ontario) Adopted and praised. especially his 1975 masterpiece “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”—is often called an unofficial national anthem of the American Midwest due to its deep resonance with the Great Lakes region.

You, on the other hand, are a meme cultist of Trumpism that thinks LOL at Trump mental health illness is the mindset you should adopt and admire. Dumb-shit ignorance meme cults Lemmy. "Dude. Did you completely miss the point? " - NO FUCKING WAY did I miss your worship of ignorance and celebration of dumb-shit ignorance cults. You can not read between the lines of books, of English language, between the lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiU2lrGnT7U

Take a breath, anon.

My Lemmy user profile clearly states I was raised in Midwest USA, Fort Wayne, Indiana. I am Anon anonymous NOT. My name on Lemmy user profile is clearly published “Stephen Alfred Gutknecht”

You seem like an ignorance worshiper, a dumb-shit seeker. A person who loves the August 2026 world wide leadership of dumb-shit meme-thinking Truth Social mindest. A fandom of Donald Trump “anon” dumb-ignorance memes.

I use Midwest . Social media Lemmy system because I have been in social media since year 1984. “The Fortress” BBS in 219 telephone area code SysOp and software system ( social media app) creator and site creator.

the traumatic events they escaped from

American Cyber forces escaped the Russian Saint Petersburg Internet Research Agency? Hell NO! I was The Apprentice employee of Telos Federal Systems of Santa Monica California at age 16 year 1986 and you are a banalizatioon agent of dumb-shit meme-thinking. You are incredibly gullible to think hiding reality in Vlad Surkov war against Reality is a good idea or concept. Terrible logic meme-thinker of Lemmy medium cult. Wake the Fuck UP, USA. Surkov students won since year 2013. Midwest USA Fort Wayne Indiana BBS SysOp. Santa Monica Telos Frogs year 1969.

Not being too specific, but here’s an article around the time.

Why would anyone be non-specific?

Have you heard of school shooting in Texas? “On May 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States. Salvador Ramos” - Islamic Muslim 9/11 influenced? Holy Bible Levant Bible imported to Texas, Bible Thumping Texas?

September 11, 2001 mindsets?

“On April 20, 1999, high school senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 13 students” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

• “Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is a 2005 role-playing video game created by Danny Ledonne. The game recreates the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado. Players assume the roles of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and act out the massacre, with flashbacks relating parts of Harris’ and Klebold’s past experiences. The game begins on the day of the shooting and follows Harris and Klebold after their suicide to fictional adventures in perdition.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Columbine_Massacre_RPG!

Quran fiction addictions. Bible fiction addictions. Video game fiction addictions. Fox News fiction addictions. Trump Truth Social empire of media fiction addictions. Mecca empire of media fiction addictions. Star Wars Disney empire of media fiction addictions. Meme cults, fiction addictions.

When there were 11 lock downs in our kids school

Can you be specific and precise? Link some off-Leemy reference outside commenting?

Have you studied “kids schools” with serious nonfiction learning?

• “Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening the spiritual basis of the American Creed. That is how Jefferson understood it, how Horace Mann understood it, how John Dewey understood it, and in fact, there is no other way to understand it. The question is not, Does or doesn’t public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public imbued with confidence, a sense of purpose, a respect for learning, and tolerance? The answer to this question has nothing whatever to do with computers, with testing, with teacher accountability, with class size, and with the other details of managing schools. The right answer depends on two things, and two things alone: the existence of shared narratives and the capacity of such narratives to provide an inspired reason for schooling.” ― Neil Postman, The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School. Eternal September publication year.

“America’s Cyber Forces Grapple With Cluster of Deaths by Suicide”

America, USA grapples with:

1. Economics self-harm Trade fuck-you
2. Health care self-harm, medical fuck-you
3. Pollution Earth fuck-Earth
4. Women: Rape-women Fuck-Dominate you
5. Nonfiction learning: Fuck-that!

America’s Cyber Forces Grapple With Cluster of Deaths by Suicide

“When the feeling calls, how we drown in stylistic audacity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOZYltYUgc

The Hybrid Warfare memes are the stylistic audacity self-harm.

Trump: “We are taking a lot of oil from Venezuela. We paid for the war with what we have taken out many many times [over]. To the victor belong the spoils. We are doing the same thing in Iran” - Year 2026

Year 2017 nonfiction serious expert book printed on paper that every person on social media avoids repeating and quoting:

“The successful sociopath’s predatory “empathy” reflects a definite perceptive acumen, making him a genius at manipulation. When this works, it produces a disastrous trust in him. Yet, like the tiger, he is unconcerned about the welfare of his target. The pathological emotional problems in sociopathy make one another worse. An inability to have a consistent realistic view of the world, or to maintain emotionally genuine relationships, leads to more paranoia. The weakness in impulse control which arises from enraged reactions to imagined slights and produces reckless, destructive behavior, leads to a greater need to deny criticism with more lies to tell oneself and everyone else, and an increasing distance from reality. The more a sociopath needs to scapegoat others the more he genuinely hates them, making him even more aggressive and sadistic. Life is devoted to endless destruction in the service of an endless quest for power and admiration, unmitigated by basic empathy or guilt.” ― Bandy X Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. October 3, 2017. Page 89.

I simply took an interest in your extremely unique means of communication.

I keep mentioning:

1. James Joyce

2. Marshall McLuhan

But you think Finnegans Wake “isn’t of interest” in your attraction to my Lemmy electric media messages.

Anyhow (the matter is a troublous and a peniloose) have they
not called him at many’s their mock indignation meeting, veh-
men’s vengeance vective volleying, inwader and uitlander, the
notables, crashing libels in their sullivan’s mounted beards about
him, their right renownsable patriarch? Heinz cans everywhere
and the swanee her ainsell and Eyrewaker’s family sock that they
smuggled to life betune them, roaring (Big Reilly was the worst):
free boose for the man from the nark, sure, he never was worth
a cornerwall fark, and his banishee’s bedpan she’s a quareold bite
of a tark: as they wendelled their zingaway wivewards from his
find me cool’s moist opulent vinery, highjacking through the
nagginneck pass, as they hauled home with their hogsheads,
axpoxtelating, and claiming cowled consollation, sursumcordial,
from the bluefunkfires of the dipper and the martian’s frost?

Use they not, our noesmall termtraders, to abhors offrom
him, the yet unregendered thunderslog, whose sbrogue cunneth
none lordmade undersiding, how betwixt wifely rule and mens
conscia recti, then hemale man all unbracing to omniwomen, but
now shedropping his hitches like any maidavale oppersite orse-
riders in an idinhole? Ah, dearo! Dearo, dear! And her illian!
And his willyum! When they were all there now, matinmarked
for lookin on. At the carryfour with awlus plawshus, their happy-
ass cloudious! And then and too the trivials! And their bivouac!
And his monomyth! Ah ho! Say no more about it! I’m sorry!
I saw. I’m sorry! I’m sorry to say I saw!

Gives there not too amongst us after all events (or so grunts
a leading hebdromadary) some togethergush of stillandbutall-
youknow that, insofarforth as, all up and down the whole con-
creation say, efficient first gets there finally every time, as a com-
plex matter of pure form, for those excess and that pasphault
hardhearingness from their eldfar, in grippes and rumblions,
through fresh taint and old treason, another like that alter but
not quite such anander and stillandbut one not all the selfsame
and butstillone just the maim and encore emmerhim may always,
with a little difference, till the latest up to date so early in the
morning, have evertheless been allmade amenable?

No I was aware of it, it simply wasn’t relevant to my interest

You thought my direct linking of Finnegans Wake was not relevant to me and communicating with me. “Your interests” reek of harassment and active measures against these topics and how they relate to Twitter owner Elon Musk, Donald Trump Truth Social, and Rupert Murdoch Fox News. Anti-literacy badgering. Anti-woke, Anti Finnegans Woke. MAGA values messaging.

• “In Donald Trump, we have a frightening Venn diagram consisting of three circles: the first is extreme present hedonism; the second, narcissism; and the third, bullying behavior. These three circles overlap in the middle to create an impulsive, immature, incompetent person who, when in the position of ultimate power, easily slides into the role of tyrant, complete with family members sitting at his proverbial “ruling table.” Like a fledgling dictator, he plants psychological seeds of treachery in sections of our population that reinforce already negative attitudes.” ― Bandy X Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. October 3, 2017. Page 44.

Not to me no.

Ahh, so you jump in with blindness to context.

Very common issue these days with Apple iPhone / Apple iPad / Android devices / computers.

“Context Blindness: Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Understanding Media Ecology, 10)”
by Eva Berger
“Are people with autism giving us a glimpse into our future human condition? Could we be driving our own evolution with our technology and, in fact, be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution? The thesis at the center of this book is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. Since context blindness―or caetextia in Latin―is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior at the highest levels of the spectrum, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon. We could be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution―Homo caetextus.”

“Eva Berger is a senior lecturer at the School of Media Studies of the College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN), where she also served as Dean (2006-2012). She holds a B.A. from the Department of Film and Television at Tel-Aviv University (1985) and an M.A. (1986) and a Ph.D (1991) in Media Ecology from New York University. Dr. Berger has taught at NYU, Tel Aviv University, the Kibbutzim College of Education and the Sam Spiegel Film School, and has been part of the faculty at COLMAN for close to 30 years. She has served on numerous boards and public service organizations including the Israel Peace Initiative, Israel Press Council, and Institute of General Semantics.”

Anyway. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce can really help you develop self-awareness of Lemmy technology media systems usage. Repeating: “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966

So you have hyperlexia, and this leads you to typing in many tangents?

Have you read Finnegans Wake published May 4, 1939? You think it’s tangents… I view that is anti-WWW anti-diverse. How many languages can you read?

this leads you to typing in many tangents?

James Joyce cracked all languages and gestures, body languages, etc. Where you think I am ignorantly changing topics, I am surfing all human languages at levels you are not “Woke” to, the title of the book is “Woke”, Finnegans Wake.

I did mention Finnegans Wake to you in the message you are replying to, right? did you just toss that away and ignore it?

• P.S. Have you ever noticed that the most famous person in all human history has very unusual use of English language? https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/fox-news-trump-language-stelter-hoax/616309/ Donald Trump’s language ever catch your attention? And how that applies to Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, “Woke”.

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!

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

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

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…

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.