April14_2025

Stephen Alfred Gutknecht

Long-form scratch pad / dumping ground. Intranet exposed.

Much of this content is extremely raw product of brain damage attempting to express ideas. Not edited, not spell checked, serious problems with language brain issues. About This GitHub Project / Content.

Thank you. Love to all. "You expect for me to love you, when you hate yourself my friend. Everybody I love you. Everybody I do."; "When I tell you I love you, you can't believe that it's true! Everybody I love you..."

 

NAVIGATE: Situation In a Nutshell ... Quotes_Pile ... PostMalala ... Media_Ecology .. SuperIndex

 

• "Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one." — from A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, page 37

• "Il avait fait alors une grande démonstration de sa découverte à un Congrès International d'Astronomie. Mais personne ne l'avait cru à cause de son costume. Les grandes personnes sont comme ça." - published year 1943. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

"Being illiterate in the processes of any medium (language) leaves one at the mercy of those who control it. The new media — these new languages — then are among the most important "subjects" to be studied in the interests of survival." - Neil Postman on media ecology

APPLIED_FINNEGANS_WAKE "Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966. MEDIA_STUDY_PRACTITIONER

 

… 𝄞 🎸 Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died? … "One day in 1986 his supervisor asked him to resolve an accounting error of 75 cents in the computer usage accounts. Stoll traced the error to an unauthorized user who had apparently used nine seconds of computer time" … "I was lecturing once at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington on Hindu mythology, sociology, and politics. There’s a saying in the Hindu book of politics that the ruler must hold in one hand the weapon of war, the big stick, and in the other the peaceful sound of the song of cooperative action. And there I was, standing with my two hands like this, and everybody in the room laughed. I couldn’t understand. And then they began pointing. I looked back, and here was this picture of the eagle (bird) hanging on the wall behind my head in just the same posture that I was in." - summer of 1987, age 83, Joseph Campbell, Skywalker Ranch. … RoundSparrow … "the father doesn’t want to feed a mere bird, so he kills it. And the legend says the man killed the bird, and with the bird he killed the song, and with the song, himself. He dropped dead, completely dead, and was dead forever." … "it’s not the mythology of a special revelation. The Hindus, for example, don’t believe in special revelation. They speak of a state in which the ears (Earwicker) have opened to the song of the universe. Here the eye has opened to the radiance of the mind of God. And that’s a fundamental deist idea. Once you reject the idea of the Fall in the Garden, man is not cut off from his source. Now back to the Great Seal."

 

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” — عمر العقاد. Omar El Akkad who was born in Cairo Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager (age 16) for high school in Montreal... and now lives in the United States of America. Portland, Oregon.

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow. February 28, 1973

 

Social Media

https://Bsky.App/profile/roundsparrow.bsky.social/post/3mdr7rpyw4s2p
https://Autistics.Life/@RoundSparrow/115992860484813438
https://BeeHaw.org/u/BitOneZero

 

We Can't Rewind

OPERA_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYbQXiEmevw
"Sophie Grey. & Trevor Horn “Video Killed the Radio Star” Live at O2 Forum Kentish Town in London"
1,478,017 views October 27, 2025

Twitter killed the Carl Sagan book star. The Cosmos star.

https://YouTu.be/bYbQXiEmevw?t=167 into song 107 seconds. "Pictures came and broke your heart. Put all the blame on VCR!"

• "the audience was being conditioned to get its information faster, in a way that was less nuanced and, of course, image-based. As my father pointed out, a written sentence has a level of verifiability to it: it is true or not true – or, at the very least, we can have a meaningful discussion over its truth. (This was pre-truthiness, pre-“alternative facts”.) But an image? One never says a picture is true or false. It either captures your attention or it doesn’t." - Andrew Postman. Thursday, February 2, 2017. https://www.TheGuardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley

 

• “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fiction.
• • "Now, the biblical tradition is a socially oriented mythology. Nature is condemned. In the nineteenth century, scholars thought of mythology and ritual as an attempt to control nature. But that is magic, not mythology or religion. Nature religions are not attempts to control nature but to help you put yourself in accord with it. But when nature is thought of as evil, you don’t put yourself in accord with it, you control it, or try to, and hence the tension, the anxiety, the cutting down of forests, the annihilation of native people. And the accent here separates us from nature." - Age 87. Published year 1988. Nonfiction.

We Can't Rewind. Unified Theory of Fiction and NonFiction.
We Can't Rewind. John 1:1 abounds Encrypted with Romans 11:32 ++
We Can't Rewind. Encrypted with Romans 11:33

 

• Year 2013: "They think that God is a tiny, little conservative being who would point guns at people's heads just for going to school." - July 12, 2013. ملاله یوسفزۍ

They think, the thinking systems. We The People are thinking in ways that need to be addressed directly.

• "The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

... 50 Ways to Leave Your Cult Leader. 50 Ways to stop following bad ideas and values.

 

"All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information." - page 178
Year 1964
Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man
University of Toronto
Marshall McLuhan

 

"our attempts to solve the mysteries of the heart and grasp the truth of humanity are fraught with disaster and disappointment." - https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_It_Out_(John_Mellencamp_song)