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Woke to what, exactly? 1924, over 100 years ago, James Joyce book "Finnegans Wake". <<< that Irish author/writer woke. Funeral Wake Woke-Up song of Tim Finnegans Awakening.

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"Wake Woke" - "Finnegan's wife Annie puts out his corpse as a meal spread" (www.youtube.com)

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(James Joyce's) "Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

The USA information systems, "the media", "the mainstream media", "the news media", "the social media systems".

Attracted to what. People seek out and subscribe to what. When every channel on YouTube is free, when every Reddit subreddit is no-cost no subscription fee, what do people seek?

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The Pandemic warnings

Why can't a billionaire actually say something correct, true, factual, sincere, earnest, and good? Why can't a billionaire actually be authentic and honest?

Why can't social media consumers recognize fact from fiction? Why can't social media users say: that fact is correct. Just because billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump and Elon Musk constantly deceive and manipulate about medical science, why do people have to jump to the simple binary conclusion that all billionaires are always wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI

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Friday April 3, 2015
"The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED"

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Why oh why can social media users since December 2019, in year 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 not say / not communicate the most simple factual statement about the situation? Why let RFK Jr and Donald Trump billionaires spokesmen speak for anti-science and anti-goodness and not point to science information being used as a warning to be prepared?

"Bill Gates was correct to warn everyone, to pull the alarm bell in April 2015 about pandemic preparation"

"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, 1992

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