Media ecology lessons. Unconventional, often raw, from the wilding of Truth Social nation United States of America during the Donald Trump anti-intellectual era. - Raw Lessons Pile, uncooked bleeding damaged mass man
2026-06-16 quick and dirty publish. Images absent. Some bold and other formatting absent.
YouTube video title: "Did I make a mistake??? The comments section has been LIGHTING UP!!!"
August 1, 2025
Topic: unusual natural voice that bewildered people thinking it has processing on it. Even a video news report was done at the time in 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWuvwII03iM
Professor of Rock
YouTube video title: "I Don’t MEAN TO Get MORBID….But WE All FACE an UNDENIABLE TRUTH and It SUCKS!"
August 1, 2025
Topic: Why do we care so much, take it so hard, when content creator star dies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai71CfcMKnY
2,437,903 views
January 19, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lj6JQcPooo
Fiction outsells nonfiction. By adding more fiction to government, more adventure and "choose your own reality", popularity increases. Popularity yields more name recognition and voting and power, both soft power (celebrity fame) and hard power. Everything is media ecology.
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1mfmjca/farright_extremists_using_games_platforms_to/
ToDo: Look for postings in other subreddits that might get more engagement
The late-night after-hours forbidden anti-Church.
Well, the Church speaks of Hell and sin, which is dark, and Church promotes that Heaven and Eden are good and Earth is bad (media ecology of planets, outer space).
Truth to power. Avoidance of truth. Egoism.
Getting fired for criticizing those in power, getting paid and popularity for criticizing (the comedian).
August 2, 2025 front page of Reddit social media
Title: "Bill Burr goes after Billionaires, ‘Horrible racist‘ Conservatives, ‘Treasonous idiot‘ Ben Shapiro, and ‘Disease‘ Fox News"
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1mfe87g/bill_burr_goes_after_billionaires_horrible_racist/
Does this create a simulacra of resistance?
Proxy of saying what people will not stand up in democracy (population, We The People) and say?
Is he CALLING on the audience to have bravery and courage to repeat what is being said, or just satiating the inner desire and creating spectators / passive office (See Rick Roderick "Self Under Siege" lectures which touches on this media ecology topics of spectacle media consumers)
Animal content is huge in modern audiences. Kitten and puppy photos. In the 1970's posting with an automobile was hot, but now it is posing in a photograph with an animal.
Reddit posting front page top: Michelle Obama cooks ESPN: "If I watch ESPN for an hour it's like watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta. It's the same drama, they're yelling at each other, they don't get along. Stephen A. Smith would be a great Real Housewife. What's the difference? It's just drama."
https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1mfucgc/michelle_obama_cooks_espn_if_i_watch_espn_for_an/
Media ecology discussion assignment: Rectangle simulacra, armies of medical doctors servicing the ultra rich for entertainment. They could be traveling the world building hospitals, these athletic supermen, but people want fiction framed rectangle screens and rectangle FIFA / NBA / NFL. Why not watch children play in the neighborhood and have exercise and make real world friendship, why are people only interested in rich people's lives? Mythological gods?
https://old.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/1mftfz5/terrible_notification_to_get_on_take_off/
Media ecology discussion topic: Study the comments here about experiences getting faulty notifications. Deeper... did the person spreading this on Reddit just want a discussion, have flight anxiety or lost bag anxiety, and wanted to share... did they likely know that the indicator may be faulty? Is it like car drivers complaining about weather or traffic, despite being a routine topic, just as conversation starters?
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1mfwflr/trumps_media_takeover_isnt_about_bias_its_about/
"Trump's Media Takeover Isn't About Bias, It's About Silencing Dissent"
Social media has given every person a taste of leveraged machine power: banning people, blocking people. No need to burn physical books on paper like 1930's Nazi Germany... the block button doesn't require flame and paper. Egoism / egomania / echo chambers / filter bubbles. Silencing and grey-rocking those who dissent. Since October 8, 2013 - Malala has been routinely grey-rocked by social media users - she provides non-fiction content of progressive reformation. Malala's sincere non-fiction is popular in the rise of Donald Trump / MAGA / Putin invasion of Ukraine (February 2014 onward). What's wrong with what Malala Yousafzai has to say? It doesn't go with the flow of using powerful machines to dehumanize and block and silence those in "the others" groups. Donald Trump and Radio Mullah media behavior follow the same year 2012 onward trajectory. People are not willing to face up that what Donald Trump is doing, blocking and silencing people he disagrees with, is commonplace in Bluesky social media year 2024, Reddit social media, etc. Marshall McLuhan educated society about this, such as this 1977 interview on television: "all forms of violence are a quest for identity. When you live out on the frontier, you have no identity. You’re a nobody. Therefore, you get very tough. You have to prove that you are somebody. And so you become very violent. And so identity is always accompanied by violence. This seems paradoxical to you? That ordinary, ordinary people find the need for violence as they lose their identities. So it’s only the threat to people’s identity that makes them — terrorists, hijackers: these are people minus identity. They are determined to make it somehow, to get coverage, to get noticed."
If people can not even share Unicode messages on computer without burning books / blocking each other, what hope does humanity have for traveling in the same airports together, sharing a cinema together, sharing a sports stadium, sharing a city, eating next to each other (breaking bread together). People praise the block button (book burning, silencing of what they disagree with in modern digital forms) as "fixing" the egomania and aggression issues. Machines are not fixing the human problems, people are blocking it out, a form of psychological denial that world peace is not optional.
"The wise saying, "The pen is mightier than sword” was true. The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them." - July 12, 2013. Malala Yousafzai: 16th birthday speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music_and_the_fall_of_communism
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest on this theme...
Having society depicted on mass media / TV shows / films of fiction.
Video duration: 16 minutes
YouTube Title: "Learn How to Count Like a Madman (Or a Computer)!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQkhzfnqdFg
Video duration: 8.5 minutes
YouTube title: "Let's Type RATS! from COMPUTE! Magazine - Commodore 64 - Issue 38, July 1983 - Early 3D Maze Game"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgXNfmq8RyE
Highlight 1: the experience of waiting two full months to get corrections to a mistake in the printing / instructions... and having to pay money for the magazine issue with corrections.
Highlight 2: YouTube community comments such as "Typing in programs like this is why I can type so fast and accurately today. It was the BEST typing tutor! :)" are worth a glance.
BBC discussion of television comedy show from USA: "1980: Graham Chapman Reviews M*A*S*H* | Did You See...? | Classic TV Review | BBC Archive"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_jnbyJMDE
Topics: Large number of episodes, decade-long content, anti-war meaning / purpose / intention, futility of war, character Radar, comfort in war zone, USA war that was winning war (developing South Korea as a future alley like Japan after World War Two... in opposition to Vietnam war of the show production)
Current event of August 3, 2025 perspective given recent UK legal changes regarding underage media. Now USA-centered Reddit social media community discussing promotion by USA politicians.
https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1mgjzvw/so_it_begins/
"They Ruined One Of The Greatest Songs Ever Written"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQcymjDarNs
Is he (Charles Cornell) gullible how much wealth goes into Superbowl media advertising? Is this how earworms are implanted, older target demographic with wealth who knows the song would have it lodged in their mind. That's the themes of Media Ecology of Finnegans Wake, ("Earwicker" is the name of the character, "Earworm" meme themes, Bible verse John 1:1 earworms).
Is this a form of mental exploit. to subconsciously lodge it into the minds? Isn't that the very foundation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake story... Wake Up, Woke, Woke to media ecology? "Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966
... "Left its seeds while I was sleeping.. And the vision that was planted in my brain... still remains"
2025-08-03 3,878,502 views since January 22, 2025
Bing AI output on HCE Earwicker John 1:1 topic Sunday, August 3, 2025
Rituals of a live music performance discussion:
https://old.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/1mhdczv/meirl/
Our minds and brains did not evolve on Earth prepared for recorded photographs, video, audio.
Discussion:
Title: TIL that in 1984, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith heard a song on the radio. Tyler liked it and told Perry that they should do a cover version. Perry turned to Tyler and said "That's us, fuckhead." Tyler's didn't remember writing or performing their '75 song "You See Me Crying"
Title: "The 70s Sci-Fi Movie That Created A Tiny Uprising"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIlYwDiw_kg
Film about war against a species, network, visual story telling. War with nature. Networked human intelligence.
Is this subconscious authentic nightmare for you and others you know?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbAPtGYiRvg
0:12
um the tendency in uh American culture to turn over to technology sovereignty command control uh over all of our social institutions in other words the book is about how um America has uh developed a new religion as it were uh and the religion is its faith in U that uh human progress and technological innovation are the same thing and that paradise can be achieved through greater and greater commitment uh to technology
0:55
what is technology well I have to Define it in the book or rather broadly because not only do I include Machinery like television and uh computers and all that but also techniques uh I call them invisible Technologies because most people don't think of them as a a sort of Machinery but things like statistics and polling and um uh uh bureaucratic forms any um uh systematic and repeatable technique that tends to cause people to uh constrain their thinking about the world we talked a number of years ago about television um what impact is technology
1:50 having on television and what's what's 1:52 the impact on the 1:54 country well one of the reasons Brian 1:57 that I I felt I did this but is that the 2:00 the last time we talked as you suggest 2:04 uh was about a book that was almost 2:06 wholly devoted to television and when I 2:09 started to uh think about that issue I 2:13 realized that you couldn't get a a an 2:16 accurate handle on uh what we Americans 2:20 were all about by focusing on one medium 2:23 that that you had to see television as 2:27 part of a kind of um 2:30 system of techniques and technologies 2:34 that are giving the shape uh to our 2:37 culture for instance um if one wants to 2:40 think about what has happened to public 2:42 life in 2:43 America uh and U one has to think of 2:47 course first about television but also 2:50 about CDs and also about um 2:55 uh all sorts of faxes and telephones and 3:01 all of the Machinery that that takes 3:03 people out of public 3:06 Arenas and keeps them fixed in their 3:09 homes so that we have a kind of 3:12 privatization of American life and one 3:15 here is people say with some 3:18 considerable enthusiasm that in the 3:20 future uh putting television computers 3:23 and the telephone together people will 3:26 be able to shop at home vote at home 3:29 home uh do every Express uh political 3:33 preferences in in many ways at home so 3:36 that they never have to go out in the 3:38 street at all and never have to meet their fellow citizens in any context because we'd have this Ensemble of Technologies uh that keep us private away from from citizens in fact I think uh Ry Peru's idea of a town meeting uh is a new kind of definition of town meeting because it doesn't imply co-presence uh of people he wants to do it via Electronic media so that uh television and as well as other
4:17
Technologies redefine all sorts of things I mean television uh has redefined uh as I think we talked about last time what we mean by a public debate that uh we used to use uh the Lincoln Douglas debates as an example as kind of model or metaphor of what we mean by uh political debate uh these debates would go on for hours television has redefined it so now the two or possibly three candidates stand in front of the television camera and each one is given two minutes to respond to a very difficult question and uh the opponent is given 60 seconds
5:03
to reply now we still call this a debate uh but it's a redefinition of of that term and uh uh Rose perau suggestion that we use television as a form of uh a town meeting is another redefinition of what we once met by town meeting so that the one of the most interesting things about technology is that it redefines our language it it gives us different meanings uh of older words and very often we're not quite uh as aware as we should be of how that process is working good or bad well in this book I mostly emphasize
5:53
the bad part uh I've done that in most of my books but I owe I I admit and uh happily at the beginning of the book that anyone who um uh looks at technology as an either or development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt_NwowMTcg
"Nicholas Carr: The Shallows - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains"
"Technology commentator Nicholas Carr discusses his book, "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," presented by Harvard Book Store. Is use of the Internet causing us to lose the ability to concentrate and think deeply? Drawing from philosophy, neuroscience, and history, "The Shallows" explores how the Internet may be rerouting neural pathways."
Listen to this for 2 minutes at time index 424 seconds
https://youtu.be/lt_NwowMTcg?t=424
1000 years ago, the word space, no spaces between words. Oral, and Finnegans Wake page 3, Thunderwords.
Now listen to this!
JoyceGeek Thunderword 1 fromm Finnegans Wake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV3vT5nW_I4
Video title: Nicholas Carr: Why Social Media Has Made Us So Anti-Social
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydIFxIdaz8Y
Turn us into rivals, Marshall McLuhan (who died in 1980) said: “The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of absolute conformity." ... anyone able to date that quote?
How did London view the arrival of Star Wars in 1977?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKJW1wazQ8
The microphone and technique is the message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cirBprnMyA4
Anything to be famous, to be on camera. Seeking Fame.
Fame the musical / Film.
https://old.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1msuqjp/good_old_days/
Egypt symbols, American-created art (Journalism, Research Research Research, Great Seal Nile river USA 1776)
Video title: "Dagger of Amon Ra Copy Protection Failures"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xv2kTn-Wac
Topics: Like getting a concert ticket months in advance, the line of ticket purchase for assigned seating. Season seat passes for sports stadiums. Downloading large files.
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1mv7qkq/no_wifi_at_home_how_to_download_heavy_games/
Prank culture, ritual hazing, ritual hurdles, jump through hoops, courtship, friendship, relationship, indoctrination, double-down rituals.
https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1mvjuva/liam_pranks_gator_days/
Hugely popular content.
style of skill, team social skills, good shooter vs. good teammate
One trick pony metaphor. One favorite skill, one overdeveloped talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZFmW3k5-E
Jack or no jack, public noise, ringtone songs, notification opera.
https://old.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/comments/1mw854f/the_good_old_days/
I personally have worked from home since August 1999. Home has included home office in South America, Africa, Middle East, Malaysia, Indonesia and RV all over the USA (8 different RV sizes and shapes). With my wife and solo after divorce.
Lesson focus:
Is work office culture the same in 1975 vs. 1995 vs 2025?
pandemic COVID-19 changes
Is work office same in different nations, rural vs. city, other geographic differences.
Work hours culture, work days culture. Muslims have their Friday night on Thursday night and do not work on Friday and start week on Sunday in several nations I have lived in. In Chile in South America, people were used to long work hours and staying up late was more routine. Japan is famous for after-work obligations for salarymen.
Contractors vs. employees and expectations.
Jobs that can't possibly be work from home: delivery person, repair person, installation, construction, waiters, drivers, pilots, cleaners, physical labor in factory, fresh food preparations, etc, etc.
Working with your spouse and children around during summer school breaks.
Vacations and working 'on call' even when on paid holiday.
https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1mx4ze9/do_you_guys_agree_with_this/
How the New York Times Beat Paywall Hackers For Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ej9JUnFCO0
Autism, hyperlexia, dyslexia, handwriting problems, listening problems.
Not understanding lyrics to song.
Visual and language sound same time.
"I have an auditory processing disorder."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfJ7i_uKWSo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Topics:
ELIZA effect of having information sent back to you reformed. 1960's MIT.
Software developers stuck on fixing bugs, would share techniques of using a rubber duck to verbally change media from internal thinking.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/1my1j7m/always_read_carefully/
Women's health bombarded by fiction storytelling.
The history of snake oil sales techniques, exploitation spots in the human mind, patterns of manipulation to be tricked and bamboozled.
How men manipulate women into pregnancy with media systems and mind-tricking messages.
Exploiting the attraction to exotic sexuality, exotic sexual ideas and creative fictions storytelling.
https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1my1ssb/most_tiktok_videos_about_birth_control_are/
Retail store background music systems.
https://old.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/comments/1n5njj4/i_understand_now/
A world of 8 billion people on the Internet. Owning a trademark of a word "Windows", owning a trademark of a famous person's brand and name recognition. Deliberate impersonation, scammers, parody and satire.
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1n8dat1/lawyer_named_mark_zuckerberg_sues_meta_after/
Harry Potter USA vs. UK release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrvih1gSN4w
https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1n8lwq6/nepal_bans_facebook_x_youtube_23_other_social/
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1n8fd6a/nepal_moves_to_block_facebook_x_youtube_and_others/
Discussion of Spotify techniques spotted in the wild.
https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1nbm8cq/spotify_artist_deliberately_naming_songs_to/
David Letterman show about The Eagles rock music song. The Eagles in 2025 are infamous about YouTube copyright strikes too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orgARa3sC_8
Entertainment politics. Ronald Reagan President as entertainer. Donald Trump Reality TV Star of the Apprentice entertainer. Fox News entertainment network.
The way to get social media viral coverage is to be entertaining and upload to cloud computing systems.
https://old.reddit.com/r/GuysBeingDudes/comments/1nexecd/guys_being_dudes_in_the_middle_of_protest_nepal/
Automation arms race of CAPTCHA - scripted automation vs. interactive users.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1nflvhw/why_cant_robots_pass_catch_tests/
Obscene wealth created by just minutes of content on screens. An actor who got $100,000,000.00 for working on a single film - hundred of millions of dollars... as he knew the kind of technology entertainment, the props and space ship technology, would sell like the Jaws machine technology. Fiction machine shark vs. nonfiction shark reality, fiction outer-space vs. nonfiction science learning money spending by consumers.
https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ngstu1/til_9_days_after_star_wars_opened_in_1977_alec/
The experience of publishing a photograph and having an audience who is addicted to reaction-commenting / reviewing every single photograph and comment they encounter. Line-item reaction voting / "likes" / comments on every media with other media.
https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1nipm5z/ribbon_oc/
The character's reaction depicts what Rick Roderick said in 1993: vertigo in the face of too much information. A swarm of reaction-comments to a single photograph.
The Steam Deck isn't open hardware (confirm that claim?).
Android vs. Apple devices. Apple won’t allow Apple operating system to run on non-apple software in almost all cases and has found huge success in selling hardware and software married into a single package. Consumers often try to think of content/software as "free" and selling it inside a "gadget" with specific buttons tends to make more sales / profit. Long history of this in the electronics industry from the very start. General purpose tools confuse people.
Hardware DRM / anti-piracy / unique hardware such as Nintendo 64 console cartridges that were not compatible with any of existing system.
Microsoft had plenty of anti-competitive issues in the software, the argument can be made that they sabotaged their partner IBM with OS/2 while developing Windows NT (IBM PC-DOS, Microsoft MS-DOS had two companies with source code rights. IBM OS/2 and Microsoft OS/2 would have been two companies with source code more like how hardware chips are often fabricated by competing companies to have second-source).... starting sentence over. The one thing Microsoft DID give us compared to Apple - was a far more open choice of personal computer hardware. Things like supporter printers, supported optical drives, support WiFi hardware, Ethernet network adapters, graphics cards (GPU chips), etc that Apple's more closed systems didn't encourage. You can get Windows laptops with every size screen and keyboard imaginable, where with Apple that choice is much more limited. And you can't run Apple apps on a Windows system easily (or run into legal restrictions / licensing restrictions with the app store). NEEDS EDITING. As does everything.
Nintendo is really bit on proprietary hardware married to their game software. Also on their use game ROM on software emulators. Although there are sometimes open standards used, such as the Nintendo Wii remotes working with Linux Bluetooth conventions.
Anyway, some interesting discussion here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1nj58na/been_having_debates_with_my_friends_on_the/
Automtic hate of Japan body types, sign writen in English by Chinese worker.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1nj8obm/a_chinese_american_wearing_a_sign_saying_hes/
"the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths. What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?" - Joseph Campbell, Power of Myth, age 82
Media Ecology 120 American Media Cartels
https://www.wytv.com/news/daybreak/surprising-marketing-gimmick-used-by-elvis-presleys-manager/
"But some people did not love Elvis — older people who did not appreciate his hip-swigging new music. Parker began to sell “I Hate Elvis” buttons so he could make money either way. The only button he didn’t sell was something saying, “I feel ambivalent about Elvis.” In a book titled ‘Colonel (The True Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley),’ author Alanna Nash mentions the badges."
study example: Star Wars asset owners supporting billionaire media causes while selling to the audience "I hate Disney-like The Media cartels" content.
https://i.redd.it/1u4uolmmexpf1.jpeg
Massive networks of billionaire-owned media outlets speak with directed talking points? Saying it serves a local community without teaching Edward Bernays students techniques, Neil Postman's media ecology comprehension of television outcomes.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/1nk5y8h/fox_abc_cbs_and_nbc_local_news_stations_all_owned/
Being able to fake voice calls and text messages to loved ones to declare someone was killed. Especially if some labor goes into matching it up to a airport trip or train trip or ocean crossing where a lot of conditioned society anxiety media exists.
Being able to fake evidence of an affair / cheating at a job or in a intimate relationship.
A music video going vial from South Korea, which was not known for world music industry like "The British Invasion" of The Beatles world wide or Michael Jackson USA world wide, etc.
Content that alters states of mind.
Marshall McLuhan saying LSD drug users at his university said Finnegans Wake poetry, oral reading of The Wake... SEE_ALSO www.LazyWake.com
Animation triggering known defects in the mind. Is a specific genetic disorder identified on this now?
https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1nkh04y/a_pok%C3%A9mon_episode_caused_about_600_people_to_have/
Is Lisztomania real? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania
One of my favorite examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BznKC3Umc8A
1,064,073 views December 10, 2017
Questions for media ecology students to ponder:
What year was the song published?
What year was the video recorded?
What year was the upload to YouTube video platform?
What year was YouTube well known and recognized by media experts in music publishing?
How many backup copies of the recording of the video did they keep?
Ponder: How much money the music publisher makes vs. artist... and they let the copies corrupt and nobody had a backup copy?
Pay attention to the YouTube upload dates of famous acts. Songs not published for years and years after YouTube was famous. It cost next to nothing to upload the song to YouTube, a couple hours of labor. Why not until December 4, 2018? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnEBSY3leQQ "℗ 1978 Geffen Records. Released on: 1993-12-19"
Study the comments of this video on Reddit about people who created the Internet. Are they household names? Everywhere in the world?
Is this video a repost, did the person on Reddit record the video or is it a repost? Can you locate on the World Wide Web any other previous postings or the name and date of when it was recorded? The location of this room, geography?
https://old.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1npb0n8/pay_respect_everyone/
Your parents choose your housing location, your school feed, your Mosque or Church feed. The collected assembly of stories known as the Torah / Quran / Bible / Upanishads / etc. People favor fiction poetry passed down from elders / grandparents / parents to child.
https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1ntfmud/differences_in_algorithms/
Child learning hand-eye gestures
https://old.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1nt70ns/boy_discovers_how_to_give_a_thumbs_up/
“Joyce is, in the Wake, making his own Altamira cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind, in terms of its basic gestures and postures during all the phases of human culture and technology. As his title indicates, he saw that the wake of human progress can disappear again into the night of sacral or auditory man. The Finn cycle of tribal institutions can return in the electric age, but if again, then let’s make it a wake or awake or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream. He discovered the means of living simultaneously in all cultural modes while quite conscious.” — Marshall McLuhan, see also “Address at Vision 65” , p. 7
Humanity did not have recorded images. Look at how people behave toward children and young people, the shock and turning away from people outside their current comfort zone.
https://old.reddit.com/r/pranks/comments/1ntjkmi/throwback_picture_prank/
This lesson: what do actresses and actors do as children to become famous? Are there patterns in USA over many decades showing children fleeing to New York City to make it in theater? Children who run away to California to try and get on television shows or films?
https://old.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1ntosr4/welcome_back_harvey_weinstein/
Standing up to your audience.
https://old.reddit.com/r/comedy/comments/1ntu0p9/david_cross_shares_his_feelings_on_the_comedians/
I am a published author / expert on repeating systems. IBM OS/2 books, several. I was both an author and technical editor. IBM appointed me as an OS/2 Ambassador for social media activities, Gold, highest level.
Metaphors used to explain concepts. Tower of Babel topics. Finnegans Wake James Joyce messages.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1nuajyf/howtokillachild/
"Indiana - Fort Wayne 41/3
Fort Wayne OS/2 User Group
Contact - Stephen Gutknecht
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Meets - Central Soya on Cook Rd.
Meets - 7pm, 2nd Tuesday
Phone - Voice -- (219) 484-0062 (Bus. Hrs.)
Phone - BBS -- (219) 471-3918"
http://files.mpoli.fi/unpacked/software/os2/texts/mm1193.zip/nov93.txt
https://archive.ph/4CgwH
Albums with their own barcode / product selling / library identification code.
Music albums: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/LDD/albums_titled_after_their_catalog__serial_or_barcode_numbers/
ToDo: find less spammy site with that list?
Are there books named after Duey decimal system or other public library category systems? ISBN?
YouTube songs named after their YouTube song ID? "The 11-character alphanumeric YouTube video ID system (e.g., dQw4w9WgXcQ) allows for approximately 73 quintillion unique combinations."
Neil Postman's Television replacing head image on October 5, 2025 front page of Reddit. PizzaCake is a Canadian artist.
The terror of reality itself, ongoings, of a society driven by information systems. The media ecology crisis.
https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1nyqtpl/2025_terror/
When fiction media reaches out beyond the cinema screen, television screen, video screen games.
Year Zero (2007): This ARG was a marketing campaign for the Nine Inch Nails album of the same name. Players discovered phone numbers hidden in the spectrograms of songs, which led to recordings, websites, and other clues that fleshed out the dystopian plot.
Telephone and text message scams. The phone networks are regulated by the government for a hundred years, but predatory businesses and money making schemes can't be stopped. There are not that many telecom companies at the back-end (many branding front-ends for marketing and pricing) - this is not impossible to regulate. Yet it goes on for decade after decade. Creating a peer to peer hostility in society. Abusive information system usage. People who tolerate abusive relationships, predators, manipulators, "settle for", who would criticize in a personal romance relationship at family / friends level - entirely allow it at the society-wide national level.
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1o195kb/america_is_drowning_in_scam_calls_and_texts_and/
Measuring and numbers. Tower of Babel tower climbing conflict experiences.
Language of time is 60 minutes is a full hour. Language of USA currency is that 25 cents is one quarter, one of four, to 100 cents, one full dollar. So mixing one quarter of an hour with one quarter of a dollar exposes a mental junction of thinking. The measurement of time units vs. measurement of money.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MemeVideos/comments/1o1bd2b/the_embarrassment/
The compiler that compiles the compile. The higher language to the self-hosted compiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu3laL5VYdM
"The Original Sin of Computing...that no one can fix"
998 views October 8, 2025
All the things Marshall McLuhan said about adverts.
Rick Roderick story about McDonald's advert.
Earworms, Earwicker, mind-searing branding.
Medium generations, paper and pencil and eraser vs. touchscreen device.
Most year 2025 smartphones have a "guest mode" that prevents access to private data.
But the value of the device. Pencils did get stolen, not returned, frequently.
https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_irl/comments/1o27qvd/anime_irl/
A new album this week from major musician, and they made the front page of Reddit for a product placement.
How cynical should we be?
Moving houses, medium change.
Canadian tells his experience of personal computer graphics upgrades, storage options, sound options. When Japan was the technology leader for portable computers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5mVXHmZNnA
Some genetic brain, different education / learning / input.
https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1o4afve/major_iq_differences_in_identical_twins_linked_to/
The path is the message, the walking path. The road ahead metaphors.
https://old.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1o6bcr7/a_security_guard_in_turkey_saved_a_woman_who_was/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HEjeMBNcm8
A business, The Eagles businessmen, that has a reputation for copyright abuse and in-fighting over wealth and royalty and credits and greed over publication. Which is the very topic of the song itself, "water into wine", no - turning songs into cash and keeping it off YouTube for HOW MANY YEARS? Since year 1974, it took until year 2025 LATE, LATE YEAR 2025, to officially upload to YouTube?
"39,130 views August 29, 2025
Official Audio for "On the Border" performed by the Eagles. Original song from 'On the Border' (1974)."
edited more...
"All the royalty and copyright fighting - took you from 1974 to LATE August 2025 to finally upload to YouTube. How many lawyers argued and argued and argued and argued. Lyrics: "change this water into wine", sure turning your song into lawyer wealth. Corporate America businessmen at their worst. Don't make music for fans, make music to argue and debate with your fellow businessmen over logic of sharing wealth and copyright fame. You are not turning water into wine with that egoism. Your lawyers copyright law and order, yha. Go read Bible verse "1 John 3:17", you old men."
Male body media ecology. Is this true only in USA, North America? True in 1930 vs. 2020? Does military statistics show higher death rates for taller / larger body sizes?
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1odomj5/this_is_so_concerning/
5 complete sentences
Front page of Reddit Thursday Octobwr 23, 2025
https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1odt66t/what_happen_when_you_have_17_years_of_experience/
A non-clickbait headline would describe the profession / occupation / field of experience.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1oe4ti3/peetah_what_happened_this_morning/
A year 2009 published article indicates that machine OCR was used to create the website publication. Loss of original document?
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2009/1/the-devil-at-37000-feet
I spot errors on October 23, 2025: "They were stickand-rudder men" "training is classroomand simulator-based." "He said, “Twentyfive-oh-five. That’s why I write it down.”" - is that last one style or error?
1995 review from Roger Ebert (when he was still alive)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/scream-1996
Today 2025-11-02
"they went to the movies in “The Last Picture Show” and the heroes"
"Instead of leaving it to the audience to anticipate the horror clichés"
"But those movies were about the *act* of going to the movies."
Regarding number 3, are the asterisks intentional or supposed to be italic / underline? There are a huge number of spacing problems in this story. "Roger Ebert's estate was worth approximately $9 million at the time of his death in 2013." Were these old 1990's reviews published on the website when he was still alive in year 2013 or earlier?
Also consider that Halloween films tend to get passed down for holiday rewatch... and people may pass down their favorite reviewer. So there is sill an audience for a 1996 film review. Somewhat sad that such glaring publishing mistakes are not cleaned up for Halloween 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1rULxGHCA
The convergence... do recognize that ChatGPT readds books and is knowledgable?
https://youtu.be/QN1rULxGHCA?t=270
The purpose of books is to entertain us...
Forbidden by the audience / players
https://old.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/1og24q3/is_this_a_joke_ea/
Do people not change stories in their mind? Do people not think multiple paths in their own future?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
I made a horror game that's IMPOSSIBLE to SCREENSHOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNhiT-SmR1Q
Motion itself being often how humans and other animals on planet Earth detect a threat / predator. Camouflage in fur / feathers / clothing / fish colour and shapes... and without movement, a still photograph, people can't spot the movement of the threat. Ambush or "sit-and-wait" predators, where immobility is key to their hunting strategy.
"Terrestrial examples include leopards and jaguars, whose spotted coats blend into dappled light; owls with mottled feathers mimicking tree bark; the masquerading praying mantis and crab spider that resemble flora; chameleons that alter their appearance to match surroundings; and vine snakes that mimic branches. In aquatic environments, mastery of camouflage is evident in octopuses and cuttlefish, which dynamically change their skin pattern and texture; the highly venomous stonefish and scorpionfish that blend perfectly with the seafloor; frogfish that use a lure while remaining hidden; the well-camouflaged alligator snapping turtle; and the flattened, fringed tasselled wobbegong shark. All these species rely heavily on immobility and effective disguise to facilitate their ambush hunting strategies."
Nonfiction is Unrealistic
Nonfiction is Unpopular
Reality is Unpopular
Fixing Reality is Unpopular via media
"It's a relatively common thing in media that "reality is unrealistic." Accurately showing Nazi criminals verges so far into absurdly, insanely, obviously evil and horrible actions that it comes off as a parody of how you'd criticize your enemies rather than an accurate depiction of their crimes. You risk breaking suspension of disbelief because the horrors inflicted on people by Nazi Germany were so beyond the pale that they go into cartoonish self-parody."
...
"You said what I meant more clearly. Movie Amon already comes close to cartoonishly evil, but good acting and writing keeps his normal human qualities in view. In my opinion, this makes the character even more sinister, because it allows the possibility that "anyone" could be like Amon, given the "wrong" circumstances and choices.
At the same time, Schindler's character shows how, even if your whole life you've basically been a crook, that you can choose to be good and do good things. A spying, womanizing, drunk, corrupt war profiteer like Schindler ends up crying while giving the literal clothes from his back to the people he risked his life to protect through the war? I've seen the move probably 10 times by now, that last scene still gets me."
https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1oloevw/til_the_first_message_sent_over_the/
Typographic man. "Woman addressed here – a type of Issy – was previously A-B-C-minded, that is, simple." https://johngordonfinnegan.weebly.com/book-ii/chapter-2-section-2
F.M. Radio for music, sports, entertainment.
The range is not very long. Typically 80 miles or less on a car radio / portable radio. Often only 40 miles in experience. Even worse inside houses / office buildings. They would cut out.
You would not be able to listen in USA to London F.M. radio. Same with broadcast television. The antenna built into a portable television set, "rabbit ears", could not pick up television from a city 150 miles away.
What this means for this lesson: a radio made in Japan and sold to the USA consumer in year 1971 would have channels / frequencies that are not the same all across the world. So carrying that radio on a vacation or business trip could result in it being useless to listen to music or such in other nations.
EXMPLE: Poland and USA F.M. radio differences
https://youtu.be/zVTkzx0IA1c?t=467
Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks: You need to be bored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQKfIXMiA8
Giving thanks for something that did not happen. How certain audiences behave.
https://youtu.be/TiGvrnzYsSM?t=62
Marshall McLuhan's "Mass Man".
Surfing mass man. What McLuhan had to say about advertising / marketing.
https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ow6t3v/well_it_was_fun_while_it_lasted/
Low-effort prompting
https://youtu.be/rGremoYVMPc?t=125
https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1ozk8fq/peak_millennial_behaviour_and_i_stand_by_it/
Finnegans Wake ALP example, sonic media environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y96lD5HYYIM
https://youtu.be/Y96lD5HYYIM?t=694
Questioning the Tower of Babel. Authentic relationships with other people. Everything is being called into question. Seam highlighting.
Narrative Logic like Finnegans Wake. Dreams / memories / feelings.
Media format change / media ecology change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twLrgoXEpbA
"Tarkovsky filmed memory itself before anyone knew how. Floating camera work years before Steadicam existed in Russia, mixed film stocks turning time into texture, revolutionary long takes that changed cinema forever. This is how one Soviet filmmaker made the impossible: a film that moves like consciousness itself."
Car glass repair, replace song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STiPwOasCmE
https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1p2x6q4/the_batman_effect_a_female_experimenter_appearing/
With someone dressed so unusual, more people in public are looking in that direction? Creating a scene. More people recording on smartphone cameras? TV show Candid Camera? Candid Camera / Microphone goes back to year 1947... people can have suspicions they are being recorded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candid_Camera
Airport bomb show, request by government to ban it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomsday_Flight#Copycats_and_FAA_concerns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6cOaQqXYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLy6JnBdoY
Errors on mainstream publication
Screen shot from 2025-11-29
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-18155293
Interesting to note that there are not error detection systems at runtime or even in batch to catch these mistakes for one of the most established electric publishers in history.
"Short form video is making books BAD"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG5zrQxPICk
Conative Control
https://youtu.be/IG5zrQxPICk?t=799
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1pd3eh8/trump_79_appears_to_call_vance_incompetent_in/
"Word Salad". James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake. Published from year 1924 to Star War Day year 1939.
The Force of John One One Bible verse. The world language patterns of The Bible, the most published book / Quran most published book language unification / origin of the Arabic singsong language consolidation of Tower of babel.
"World Salad". "Woke" / "Wake" / Awaken English Salad Words, John 1:1, year 1924. "Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, page 56, February 28, 1966
Collage Art is "Art Salad". Macro meme images with words are "Art Salad", "Collage Art". A salad of dressing-up words and quotes with picture frame meme images.
Dublin metaphors everywhere, Bloomsday meta / metaphors everywhere, Global Village metas... University of Toronto Woke Wake.
"The power of social media" in video clip
https://old.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/1pdcfh1/hasan_takes_a_picture_with_a_kaya_fan_on_the/
The power of Palestine / Turkey Mythology warfare streaming media / Social Media. The power of mythology of a slave pet, pets are slaves. Slavery bondage, Exodus 5:1 free Allah's people in Torah science fiction storytelling trilogy. Adaption of the Levant SciFi Trilogy by a 2025 streamer.
1988 book "The Power of Myth" / George Lucas mythology Skywalker education for Hollywood visual audiences.
https://old.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/1pd6cvd/this_is_really_fucked_up/
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/nyc-restaurants-use-zoom-cashiers-from-philippines/
Camera resolution bamboozle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNZ95cBIdg
Cultural remix, sampling media culture, post post-production localization.
Going viral, memes, and books are now abandoned by the children. Reading levels, meme video clips / TikTok short-length video clip levels.
Downgrades.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1pglnji/biggest_downgrade/
Head jacks. Jacking in. Jacking off in public. Grab a Jack. 666 views July 10, 2020
Bonus topic: media ecology of tip-ring jacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_and_ring - devices with polarity protocol and transgender connector issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_symbols
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Keyboarding / typing / data-typing Chinese characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYK8s2OdMY
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How Star Wars Broke Red Letter Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQtL5krmpA
Mocking Joseph Campbell Power of Myth 1988 away. Red Letter drunk on mocking / mockery (Neil Postman 1985 Amused to Death, at time of Campbell's interviews)
@7:09 obligatory context of Star Wars / Skywalker Ranch. 1988 filmed by George Lucas, Power of Myth: "Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, “The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.” - age 83 Sarah Lawrence College professor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feO1Sl--Hg0
Campbell:
Diagnosing the same disease over and over. https://youtu.be/feO1Sl--Hg0?t=224 (Me, Stephen Gutknecht, Neil Postman disease) https://youtu.be/feO1Sl--Hg0?t=285 stable unwell mental hygiene in USA society. https://youtu.be/feO1Sl--Hg0?t=330 "most reliable thing in your life" https://youtu.be/feO1Sl--Hg0?t=356 "being profoundly unwell" sane response to situation. https://youtu.be/feO1Sl--Hg0?t=895 seeing parts of yourself as you look at at humanity and the Pale Blue Dot and Cosmos is concerns of the { Great Seal, mystic, Religion, Spiritual life, Pliribus unity of humanity and even other non-human life on Earth }
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqR1_c52ZRE
Red Letter Media vs. Shelby Oaks: What Everyone’s Missing
Why recycle of water is complex.
A.I. water consumption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc
Mr. Rogers / Ms. Rachel lessons for littles.
Fiction vs. nonfiction. Character stereotyping of humans.
The BIG Lesson: "1 John 4:20" Levant trilogy, 2000 years ago. Adult lesson of "seen the character she plays" (Mr. Rogers is Christian clergy, Bible verse "1 John 4:20" teacher).
ToDo: Campbell lecture on Jung / President / Persona mask / "stuffed shirt" - in this GitHub already?
BONUS_A OPERA_A The Pluribus bus up and down the Great Seal USA pyramid steps: https://youtu.be/bOiYN7iU-W8?t=87 and CHAINED_LIGHTNING_TRACK We Built this "Town" Pluri-Bus grand touring bus on Rock Music metaphors of row row row the rocking boat. https://youtu.be/K1b8AhIsSYQ?t=73 John One One metaphors abound. For Littles ;)
Media ecology of cockpit voice recording echo / echoland! caution! Wake-up warnings.
"What Investigators Didn't Hear on Flight 255 | Mayday: Air Disaster"
https://youtu.be/mOARW37N-Ng?t=2060
P40 breaker. Breaker 19 metaphors. Silencing an alarm, Woke / Wake alarms.
OPERA_A Cars Living in stereo channels / left vs. right. Crashing in stereo / mono moving in stereo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5oPZFDci80
OPERA_A Distant Early Warning are annoying. Visual starts with pilots. Silencing the warnings / whistle blowers in aviation, silencing the automation systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDj5XvZXX4
( 8-bit overrun 255, Detroit - Mowtown - Recording studios of sampling cockpit recordings shipping )
Predatory marketing, agressive messaging targeting people with money.
https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1pjco79/they_never_stop/
The young people in society do not vote to protect the elderly and use technology to track down these predators. The mobile phone networks have the money to identify it, but they don't do it. Same with junk mail and postal system in USA society. Profit-seeking with scams and exploitation are encouraged by media networks of postal delivery and telephone delivery an even YouTube, etc. "Elsa Gate" on YouTube, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate
USA created the Internet and much of the moral values of competitive aggressive salesmen.
https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1pl5blh/jim_carrey_offered_to_return_20_million_grinch/
This and how it relates to Andy Kaufman focus and Jim's shift to abstract art after military education on how to control minds and suffer under horrible circumstances.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jim-carrey-done-painting-political-cartoons-now-hes-mangos-1766871
"I don't know who they're trying to convince us that is, but that's definitely not Jim Carrey." concerns of audience.
China society has caught up to the USA originated Internet media ecology.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1pljuoh/china_bans_onlyfans/
Topics: Economics of women. Building a popularity career / brand / name fame with good looks using own self without joining a modeling agency or having an "agent" run branding. Declining birth rates but over-consumption of humanism. "The West" media or "The West" sex (or has the ecology of media made "The West" so entangled in remote image delivery systems like Only Fans and Reddit front page /r/All pussy-kitten image fandoms). Is there a crackdown on physical in-person sex work? Modeling work?
Machine generate images by artificial intelligence replacing human persons showing human flesh. Is this china's Generative A.I. Industry push against "The West" humanism, in favor of machines in year 2026? https://themesetfs.com/insights/inside-chinas-ambitions-of-a-38-billion-generative-ai-industry
Now does the actress get the money in these fandom relationships? Age 12 to 22 of a man, and tells her in person.
https://old.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/comments/1pletdw/carrie_fisher_described_a_meeting_with_a/
China credo / Empire of media control / Disney media empire. People trafficking for the best most attractive profit-making Hollywood / Disney California content theme parks. Gatekeeping reality of what makes casting attractive to a 10-year loyal audience.
Are people loyal to the Power of Myth 1988 book learning of Star Wars, or the weapon light saber images and actor images? Power of Myth 1988 book interviewer: https://billmoyers.com/story/joseph-campbell-say-donald-trump/
Language has changed dramatically since year 1776
https://old.reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect/comments/1pmlpx2/youve_read_the_entire_thing/
"left" and "right", very basic English words used daily by people to indicate direction, have entirely changed meaning since year 1789. And monarchy supporters would not be the USA, which was anti-monarchy intentionally. "monarchist supporters preferring tradition sitting to the right"
So declaring "it is remarkably short" and "I have read it" does not demonstrate comprehension or understanding of the language issues. This is why the Great Seal of the United States of America was created - about interpretation and understanding skills. Printed all over the place on the Dollar Bill currency. The pyramid with the eye at top. The pyramid on the Nile river, and intentional references to the Library of Alexandria at higher steps of the pyramid. Without knowing the history of Tower of Babel and language itself in Bible verse John 1:1 - understanding and comprehension via The Great Seal of the Untied States of America age 21 art and metaphor literacy education. Without that, reading words is likely to yield substantial errors and misunderstandings.
Media Ecology 230 course
Situation awareness, state of the WWW unions. 2025-12-16
PLEASE SEE: https://github.com/GreatSealUSA/GreatSealUSA_Art/blob/main/Experience_Pluribus_Project/Social_Media_Falling_Bigger_Cliff.md
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1pomtnm/what_happened_to_real_faces_on_screen/
The issue was articulated and identified in 1985 as trending
The video clip on Reddit mentions "white supremacy", a valid topic in December 2025 Reddit USA / Hollywood USA.
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985
"been sucked into this system of images and so on. Now this sounds extreme but think of how we are socialised – all of us – continually bombarded with images from magazines, TVs, newspapers, videotapes." - Rick Roderick 1993 https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/
"I think that one of the greatest examples of this – for me – is the discourse concerning body weight in women; bulimia, anorexia and so on. It’s as though a male dominant society was able in the Middle Ages to, you know, put a chastity belt on a woman, to put, you know, to… keep food away from her and starve her if she misbehaved. But today we accomplish the same feat through images that are constantly bombarded into the conscious and into the unconscious of women, and they perform the wonderfully humanistic task of starving themselves to death while male therapists teach them how to get on twelve step programs to eat." - Rick Roderick 1993 https://rickroderick.org/306-foucault-and-the-disappearance-of-the-human-1993/
USA health care system favors wealthy competition over appearances. Not inclusion for all people. This is the underlying reason so many billionaires are investing in artificial intelligence capable of generating images. The demand for "good looks" exceeds any demand for normalcy. Ugly people are considered worthless in such a society. Ugly people are treated almost as if another kind of animal / species on Earth. Images and every social device having a camera / photographs with touch-up enhancement digital abilities.
The whole change to be famous - is also somethings not always looked at. These women would not be world famous / staring roles if they did not do everything they could to compete on superficial and shallow beauty standard. Audiences and popularity / attraction to selling their content and images.
Analysis of Taylor Swift touring economics.
Contrast with Mary Spender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9FyZcozdOE
https://bsky.app/profile/davidgilbert.bsky.social/post/3ma7365iubs2i
New research shows for first time the impact influencers have on politics. Key findings:
• Creators are more impactful than traditional media • Apolitical influencers have more impact than political ones • Regular social media use pushes users to the right
https://www.wired.com/story/the-most-powerful-politics-influencers-barely-post-about-politics/
The relationships of "blockbuster opening weekend" for film premiers. Creating a blockbusting feeding frenzy fandom. So much money on the opening days counted towards "success" of storytelling.
"Indian actress Nidhi Agarwal being mobbed by fans at movie premiere."
OPERA_A Show Biz children making movies of themselves at the Movie Premier. Attractions to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPIaw-MgNzM outside the premier stadium. Crowd-pleasing performers.
OPERA_A fork(); I seen your film, your photograph - your big film debut. (Aja / India) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_pt3khMRFs
Living the online mind.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/1prj0gx/chinese_gamer_addicted_to_video_games_holed_up_in/
OPERA_A Holed up, eh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXzBj7AZvk "I decline to walk the line... they tell me that I'm lazy. Worldly-wise, I realize that everybody's crazy!", "Am I myself, or just another freak?", "You know, there's fire in the hole and nothing left to burn", "I'd love to run out now... There's nowhere left to turn, no, no" 5,912 views February 23, 2020 Should I hide? My life is boiling over! I wish someone would open up the door! Oh yha!
Mario Maker challenge, trivial to solve
254,621 views December 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBemdhNGyk
Reviewing the YouTube videos and fast food culture / You Tube / Hollywood / Hot Ones You Tube creator food product.
December 22, 2025 15,871 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVMOqir_q0I
"What's the Point?"
Front page of Reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/comments/1pu167j/got_downvoted_because_my_english_sounded_like_ai/
Media ecology lessons:
The ELIZA effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect MIT University, 1960's. I have been educated on this topic since I put ELIZA app on my Commodore 128 computer running CP/M operating system. Year 1985. I put it on social media and was amazed how many people blow their minds on computer screens and can't tell real humans in 1985, let alone now in December 2025!
The Turing Test. If a person or computer is on the other end of a message system like Reddit or Bluesky or SMS text messages on a phone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965): 21 CRAZY Facts You Didn't Know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78G3sW3tBQ
53,762 views December 18, 2025
https://youtu.be/m78G3sW3tBQ?t=276 to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ
"We Built This City" from the 1985 album 'Knee Deep in the Hoopla'.
https://youtu.be/m78G3sW3tBQ?t=651 2025 pluribus
https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1pvnncw/themoreyouknow/
It is Christmas day as I do this Git Commit. December 25, 2025 Thursday.
My my reckoning, Reddit society (the link context here in this media ecology lesson authored on Christmas Day in USA). doesn't memorialize goodness much at all.
"Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of Reddit and a prominent internet activist, died by suicide on January 11, 2013, at the age of 26. He was found in his Brooklyn apartment by his girlfriend, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman." - Copyright is Brain Damage Ted Talk by Nina Paley came out not much longer. ""Copyright is Brain Damage" is a 2015 TEDxMaastricht talk by Nina Paley, an American cartoonist, animator, and free culture activist." ... "Swartz’s focus: He fought against "paywalls" for human knowledge and political censorship (like SOPA)."
Good news is I'm here to stir the pot of Christmas metaphors and wonder if the Bible had copyright and paywalls how popular that story would be?
"The Trash Stratum: The protagonist, Horselover Fat (a fictionalized version of Dick himself), believes that the "Empire" (the repressive Roman reality he believes we are still living in) hides the divine from us. He concludes that God communicates through "junk"—low-level pop culture, discarded items, and profane imagery."
The phrase "THE VIRGIN MARY HAD STRETCH MARKS" is the opening sentence of Philip K. Dick's 1981 novel The Divine Invasion.
The Word of Jesus is out now, that's a media ecology study.
Masked as "Just a joke" like USA Reddit society that follows the leader Truth Social USA is "just joking" (satire, sarcasm, jokes, memes, amusement mill) about women / girls by a Reality TV leader...
The Male Gaze of: not entertaining enough. Women must express their emotions to my television expectations, to my Reddit image consumption and grading of emotions allowed. The machine touch device gaze of Apple iPhone / Apple iPad and the knock-off Android brands of behaving like an android media consumer of women.
https://old.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/1pwx8hi/stanger_things_2025_what_emotion_is_this/
Saturday December 27, 2025 Christmas Season USA MAGA 2025 values
"Stanger Things [2025] What emotion is this?"
Media ecology discussions on this Reddit front page posting:
Rick Roderick 1993: "a book in the sixties called “The Society of the Spectacle“. And what it was about, was about how when capitalism reached a certain level of accumulation, commodities began to detach themselves and become images. And citizens who formerly had played roles as political actors began to detach themselves from their own lives and become spectators." https://rickroderick.org/308-baudrillard-fatal-strategies-1993/
NYU Neil Postman's 1985 book: “In courtrooms, classrooms, operating rooms, board rooms, churches and even airplanes, Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Year 1985. Page 92
Christmas Jesus context of MAGA: "So, it’s an extreme case that we have in the Bible, and our own Western subjugation of the female is a function of biblical thinking." - George Lucas filmed lessons for world Star Wars male fandom (original 1977 trilogy) year 1988 book "Power of Myth" teaching book. Page 216.
Men on Reddit paid for their Netflix touch device subscription and want women who perform sexually as women should emote for them... that's the joking humor amusement of Reddit culture of alpha males following MAGA values of what's good in obedient women for consumers.
Interesting media experience: an explicit exact search on YouTube does not return the result in the first 10 or beyond... 2025-12-27 morning USA
https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pwyyr7/til_that_when_people_born_deaf_develop/
Saturday, December 27, 2025 front page of Reddit
Media ecology study:
“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.” ― Marshall McLuhan, La galaxia Gutenberg: Génesis del homo typographicus. Page 32.
1970 lecture at Cooper Union in New York by a professor of Sarah Lawrence College for women. "National Educational Radio presents the Cooper Union Forum, a program recorded at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union in New York City by station WNYC. This presentation, a lecture by Dr. Joseph Campbell entitled "Inward Journey: Schizophrenia and Mythology" is introduced by Dr. Johnson Fairchild." https://www.wnyc.org/story/dr-joseph-campbell-inward-journey-schizophrenia-and-mythology/
"The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which he analyzes the effects of mass media, especially the printing press, on European culture and human consciousness. It popularized the term global village" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gutenberg_Galaxy
Google Books search does not return the page number. And does not have earlier editions of a book about books.
Imagine sign languages, symbolism languages: Earwicker, Eyewicker, James Joyce's "Here Comes Everybody" story. "In the dream-world of the Wake, senses are dormant except for hearing, which Joyce believed "is always awake" because you cannot close your ears." OPERA_A Visual paintings, dreamer in the mind. The boats sailing away, all the row of re-circulation out of Noah's Ark stories... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZ8ossU4pc All the languages, Latin. How to sing from a Joyce book of ReJoyce, SingSong. 5,202,934 views March 28, 2012
The 1978 film "Convoy" is a celebration of language jargon. Street gangs of machine transportation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(1978_film)
Wednesday, June 28, 1978
Japan got film release weeks before USA, they loved USA content and wild west Arizona opening themes.
"The truckers drive across Arizona and New Mexico"
I was so inspired by this movie at age 9, I got a CB Radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana - my first social media communications system at age 13 / Christmas 1982 Radio Shack with a 2-story high base antenna on the side of my upstairs bedroom. Fort Wayne is a trucking hub. International Harvester (IH) plant, North American Van Lines
The film really celebrates the common medium of channel 19 public messaging. You had to have a license back then in 1978 (my license is "KBRV0896") to use social media. They deregulated and opened social media up to anyone. My 40 channel citizen band radio experience inspired me to program an original from-scratch BBS (Bulletin Board System, Public Messaging) system for the Commodore 128 computer with "subreedits" like categories for the "40 public channels" over telephone dial-up modems. I sold the software commercially in 1985. "ZBBS", "The Fortress", "219 area code".
I also had a battery-operated Walkie Talkie, also a Radio Shack. Adults in the Fort Wayne area where nice to me as a child, helped me out with radio hardware (my family knew nothing). Traded equipment / used deals at times. My username was "Big Red" because my father worked in soda business and I liked that style of soda. Some of the adults thought it meant I was a red-head child, but that was my older brother, I was blonde and blue eyed.
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1q4oq2w/after_decades_of_teaching_media_literacy_finland/
Stop Buying Magic Spoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_eAYGI80HY
91,416 views December 27, 2025
https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1qcxeyn/the_mandela_effect/
Yes. It is denial of how people around you have exploitable patterns of bewilderment and confusion. It is to deny the known problems of the human mind / brain hardware to invent magical interpretations. Magical thinking.
Year 2026 audience media ecology; behind the scenes of directing
"Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue Because Viewers are on Their Phones While They’re Watching"
https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1qfmjhd/matt_damon_says_netflix_wants_movies_to_restate/
Restate, verbally, because eyes are on animations of other content, { memes images animations }.
"An oral or tribal society has the means of stability far beyond anything possible to a visual or civilized and fragmented world. The oral and auditory are structured by a total and simultaneous field of relations describable as "acoustic space." Quite different is the visual world where special goals and points of view are natural and inevitable." - War and Peace in the Global Village. Year 1968. Page 23.
Anti-Reading, prizing content reacting. Clickbait surfing.
Conformity pressured on women's role in rock music
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZdxC8n9l-14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4zX1DQq9gQ
60,987 views January 7, 2026
The Goodreads Scandal You Haven't Heard About (Until Now)
Library of a Viking
“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable world. It is a world in which the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering but to accommodate ourselves to the requirements of new technologies. We tell ourselves, of course, that such accommodations will lead to a better life, but that is only the rhetorical residue of a vanishing technocracy. We are a culture consuming itself with information, and many of us do not even wonder how to control the process. We proceed under the assumption that information is our friend, believing that cultures may suffer grievously from a lack of information, which, of course, they do. It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Year 1992
If your favorite style of book or film or song is popular, people will make more of the same to earn money. There is both an economic incentive an popularity inventive for authors / music bands / content creators to ride the wave of popularity / jump on the same bandwagons.
https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1ql5m45/dont_just_read_one_other_book/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_V_hNdHas
782 views January 26, 2026
"Movies You Have to Watch Twice (Or You'll Miss Everything)"
https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1qpjldr/summaries_and_reviews/
Technology bypassing parenting and self-awareness on a scale never experienced by humanity.
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1qs75ir/finland_looks_to_end_uncontrolled_human/
https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1qu40tm/alamo_drafthouse_faces_backlash_after_ditching/
Sex sells.
Alan Alda on women's underwear vs. men's underwear.
Network Censorship war stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37HXBdOMKOk&t=375s
Real-time processing at cheap rates for selling inexpensive consumer household goods.
“Advertising is corporate form of art and the goal is to make an effect. Every artist - any painter, any poet or musician sets out to create an effect, he sets a trap to catch somebody`s attention. That is the nature of art.” ― Marshall McLuhan (As lesson, source quote, when? Book?)
Sound-bite media
YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1rh17h9/youtube_shorts_and_instagram_reels_are_making_you/
“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
Games have had A.I. for a long time
https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1rmicf3/aisober/
The ELZIA effect goes back to 1960's.
"We’re All Shadow Banned Now"
17,867 views February 23, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKuxQycuJe4
PERSONALIZED_FILTER_BUBBLE AUTOMATIC_FILTER_BUBBLE
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. English Class.
https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1rv4oxc/your_what_on_the_poor/
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Long before the Sony PlayStation, there has been special offers made for "new customers" and other special categories of people. Or "weekend" specials, holiday specials, discounts for a limited time.
https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1sdbf4c/mrbeast_is_what_fred_rogers_warned_us_about/
"Tumblr Executives Are Very Confused About Tumblr"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-VJPr_kjU4
39,113 views April 15, 2026
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Jordan PC user age 22 explains how social media sites like Reddit expose people to gaming experiences that a middle class Jordan person can not afford. (I lived in Jordan for years during Arab Spring, and spent a lot of time studying the price of computer hardware, smartphones, WiFi and Internet data)
"A joke that only works within the format of the media they are in."
https://old.reddit.com/r/TopCharacterTropes/comments/1ssicsn/a_joke_that_only_works_within_the_format_of_the/
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1svuprx/manitoba_to_ban_social_media_ai_chatbots_for/
SEX_SELLS_SEX_LEADERS
Story timing. MEDIA_CULTS_FICTION_FANDOM_MEDIA_POWER
Teaching symbols and signs isn't easy.
"Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing." - Year 1942
https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1tflddp/feeling_empty_after_finishing_a_video_game/
https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1tgr4t4/musical_trifecta/
Not blocking of human people, but ...
This was true for magazines, books on paper. The anti-Wiki anti-history of edit society that has developed since year 2013 is horrific. Junk noise everywhere, and Large Language Model (LLM) systems have only worsened it into faster feedback loops of bad information. ANTI_WIKI_ANTI_FAQ
https://old.reddit.com/r/GetNoted/comments/1to3x5i/professor_when_told_he_is_responsible_for_ai/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1to9e4j/how_do_you_research_information/
TOXIC_POPULARITY JAMES_JOYCE_LESSON overloaded meaning self-awareness of Finnegans Wake reading. Q2_2026_MAJOR_FOCUS_FOREST BRAIN_ROT_SOCIETY_47
WAKE_REALITY_CORE CONCERNS_OF_FINNEGANS JAMES_JOYCE_LESSON SINGSONG_JOYCEAN METAPHORS_OF_JOHN_ONE_ONE Nation vs. nation clashing, parenting baby age 1. MARRIAGE_FAMILY_MICRO_GOVERNMENT_SOCIETY_RELIGION_MACRO CORE_CONCERNS BABEL_TOWER IMPORTANT_IDEAS_FOLLOWUP_0
"There is no official count of every individual vowel and consonant in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Because the book consists of approximately 157,000 to 219,000 words pulled from roughly 60 to 70 different languages, scholars estimate the total letter count easily exceeds 1 million." - Google Search summary 2026-05-27
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https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1tq1iag/british_pilot_is_feeling_mildly_annoyed/
CONCERNS_OF_FINNEGANS JAMES_JOYCE_LESSON
https://old.reddit.com/r/Shark_Park/comments/1tq6drx/reading/
COPYRIGHT_BRAIN_DAMAGE
Year 2004
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1trxhsw/antipiracy_ad_from_2004/
BRAIN_ROT_SOCIETY_47 WE_PEOPLE_SETTLED_FOR_ABANDONMENT_NEIL_POSTMAN_MCLUHAN_IN_FAVOR_APP_MIND_BLOWN_SURKOVIAN Q2_2026_MAJOR_FOCUS_FOREST
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1ttvedn/this_is_really_scary/
Children cognition in USA society.
Neil Postman's book, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, was originally published in hardcover on March 17, 1992
The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Neil Postman was originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf on September 26, 1995
https://youtu.be/o2L8qINZD3Q?t=2367
CORE_CONCERNS BABEL_TOWER METAPHORS_OF_JOHN_ONE_ONE JAMES_JOYCE_LESSON ROMANS_11_32_PLUS_PLUS
CONCERNS_OF_FINNEGANS concerns of James Joyce's book title, book content year 1924 onward.
https://old.reddit.com/r/hatethissmug/comments/1tz9k0l/i_hate_typing_quirks_wholeheartedly/
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1tz9a4a/now_thats_a_catch_and_release/
Bible verse Matthew 4:19 media ecology lesson. Look at the emotion and financial expenditure of this group of men in this gaming / sports. "Wild game, wild fish". Read the Reddit media platform commenting about the video and emotions of the Reddit audience.
Compare this to fandoms and players of other sports or even fandoms of Bible book (Matthew 4:19) cosplay participants. COMPARATIVE_MYTHOLOGY Or video game arcade systems that simulate this sports / gaming.
https://old.reddit.com/r/whenthe/comments/1u38yda/twitter_artists/
Reddit posting title format is pro-ignorance, celebrating the ignorance of Elon Musk Twitter society. Brain rot vs. brain rot competition of Reddit app users vs. Twitter app users. DUMB_VS_DUMB IGNORANCE_CELEBRATIONS Reddit app user community seeks out the most ignorant content to consume for competitive egoism. MEASURING_BAR_SO_LOW ARE_YOU_SMARTER_THAN_3RD_GRADE_STUDENT_FANDOM_MEASURING Twitter app users mocking newspapers and magazines and nonfiction books, Reddit app users mocking Twitter app users, etc. FEEDBACK_LOOP_MEDIA_CULTS_PLATFORM_TO_PLATFORM_MOCKERY_USA
Neil Postman was a world leader in media ecology lessons. “Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Nonfiction book. year 1985.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Btechtards/comments/1u7gw7u/telegram_ceo_statement_on_the_recent_ban_your/
My wife, teacher in Algeria, informed me multiple times that they Internet was shut down during examination periods and that it was impacting business. Corrupting the adult economy because of morality issues of cheating children. What lesson does that teach kids... REMEDIAL_MORALITY
