Personal Diary of Stephen Alfred Gutknecht.
Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/DiaryAnneFrank/
WEALTH TELEVANGELISM is about
People, "We The People", world wide - fundamentally do not grasp or understand what George Lucas was teaching to his Star Wars audience in summer of 1986, summer of 1987, published in 1988 in both book and television series. Hollywood audience education.
"Power of Mythology" series for the Star Wars audience to get the nonfiction understanding of the REAL WORLD history of fiction storytelling.
There is no supernatural.
Skywalker Ranch California lessons for Star Wars audience / Star Wars Fans:
"The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this was the idea that finally turned that world into something like a wasteland, a land where people were living inauthentic lives, never doing a thing they truly wanted to because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their clergy. In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is a killer. The twelfth-century troubadour poetry of courtly love was a protest against this supernaturally justified violation of life’s joy in truth. So too the Tristan legend and at least one of the great versions of the legend of the Grail, that of Wolfram von Eschenbach."
"And of course what destroys reason is passion. The principal passion in politics is greed. That is what pulls you down. And that’s why we’re on this side instead of the top of the pyramid.", "MOYERS: That’s why our founders opposed religious intolerance—", "CAMPBELL: That was out entirely. And that’s why they rejected the idea of the Fall, too. All men are competent to know the mind of God. There is no revelation special to any people."
"The big moment in the medieval myth is the awakening of the heart to compassion, the transformation of passion into compassion. That is the whole problem of the Grail stories, compassion for the wounded king. And out of that you also get the notion that Abelard offered as an explanation of the crucifixion: that the Son of God came down into this world to be crucified to awaken our hearts to compassion, and thus to turn our minds from the gross concerns of raw life in the world to the specifically human values of self-giving in shared suffering. In that sense the wounded king, the maimed king of the Grail legend, is a counterpart of the Christ. He is there to evoke compassion and thus bring a dead wasteland to life. There is a mystical notion there of the spiritual function of suffering in this world. The one who suffers is, as it were, the Christ, come before us to evoke the one thing that turns the human beast of prey into a valid human being. That one thing is compassion. This is the theme that James Joyce takes over and develops"
people keep saying in USA May 2025: "It started with the Southern Strategy", "it started with the Founding Fathers who supported slavery", "It started with Fox News in 1996", etc, etc.
These problems did not start in the United States of America. The Tower of Babel metaphor goes back thousands of years. People not seeing the "big picture", "forest for the trees" on common ground / "tragedy of the commons" issues is a long-term problem. But the world has only recently had jet airplanes, rockets, airports everywhere, TCP/IP Internet connecting us, global telephone networks, 5G mobile data, reproducible photographs / sound / video for record-keeping, etc. in recent time. We did not KNOW these were global problems in all history in 1776, that slavery and such was a pattern of out-group hate, that every religion in the world had pattern of out-group hate. We did not have Comparative Mythology of year 1938 back in year 1776 of the USA Founding Fathers. But we DO NOW have 1938 Finnegans Wake from James Joyce, we do NOW have University of Toronto's Marshall McLuhan's book War and Peace in the Global Village from year 1968... we do NOW have the airports and the TCP/IP streaming video from across the planet to see it is a global Pale Blue Dot issue.
"As an outsider I always thought the downfall of the USA would be tragic and violent. Never thought it would be boring and just at the hands of a guy in face paint." - https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow/114512309270786952
“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, 1985
Trump to American troops stationed at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar: “As you know, we won 3 elections—and some people want us to do a fourth. I don’t know, we’ll have to think about that. You saw the new hat: Trump 2028. We’re driving the left crazy.” - Thursday, May 15, 2025
"When it does put itself in control, you get a man like Darth Vader in Star Wars, the man who goes over to the consciously intentional side." - 1987, Skywalker Ranch lessons to Star Wars audience
"conquest of the planet. And so we are now on one side of the pyramid. We’ve moved from one to two. We are politically, historically, now a member of one side of an argument. We do not represent that principle of the eye up there. And all of our concerns have to do with economics and politics and not with the voice and sound of reason." - 1987, Skywalker Ranch lessons to Star Wars audience
Canada 51st state topic has slightly died down after the election in Canada. It was a package of Greenland / Panama / Canada takeover to shock and awe the world stage with bad-ass leadership aggression values. Conditioned self-harm of USA on world stage.
The "doomscrolling" reference is more that under Trumpism, role model Donald Trump, population reacts to each other (MAGA vs. anti-MAGA, "Leopards Ate My Face" total mockery) and react to events.
USA has a common goodness cause: ask the GOP to reform, teaching remedial morality, expressing future and building future together. Never has it been more clear that "leadership" of Trumpism is wealth lordship. People are waiting around for Luigi shootings and messaging pro-violence, which that is the anti-thinking anti-goodness that has been conditioned.
Reddit and Bluesky have the free time and tools (Reddit) to organize. But is far too entertained by the total mockery / Donald Trump the entertainer. Poop diaper, "touch grass" golf outings, orange skin, antics choices, Surkov / Surkovian leadership. Neil Postman "Amusing Ourselves To Death" 1985 realized.
May 16, 2025 ~~Thursday~~ Friday
The rest of the world seems happy the USA is off the "high horse" of progressive, Pale Blue Dot morality values of goodness. To see USA dragged down into the mud of Donald Trumpism.
I lost hope years ago. I have no children. I'm "fighting" for future of people all across the world, but nobody wants this "fight". What people crave is one lone hero, AOC in USA. Not a teacher of change your way of life away from mockery and amusement, it is the Middle East alternate-reality game of Torah, Quran, Bible reformation. Nobody is asking for that. Nobody is asking for Neil Postman's 1985 "Amusing Ourselves To Death", Call Sagan's 1995 "Science as a Candle" values. Not very many people even reference them.
When I lived in Jordan studying this, you do get a sense people enjoy the fiction. They enjoy the comforts of the Quran / Torah / Bible. Just as Star Wars meme people do who never take serious the content of "Power of Myth" book about the USA Great Seal and other serious topics. The USA flag waving, no reformation there, is more the topic, like waving around colors of light saber weapons... flag waving. Not very thoughtful.
It's very grim to face that people are motivated by hate and mockery and not a desire to remove hate. To avoid Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1954 equations about hate.
People generally just don't see the children in Palestine and Ukraine are the same children with the same loss of hope / loss of goodness. And only care that it isn't "right now me". Egoism. That in 1954, 10 years after Nazi Germany and Japan in conquest / war, Martin Luther King Jr cane up with the equation: all hate is bad. Hate is bad in a marriage, parenting, neighbors, neighborhood, city, county, nation, world, Period, any time period.
"Most people can't stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody's not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what's right. But I'm here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It's wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it's wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It's wrong in every age and it's wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute."
Mass Mind Dread
Calm Before the 2nd Wave Storm
I don't doubt people won't resist, it is what they are resisting since year 2015 that has been what has driven me crazy. People resist goodness, people resist awakening to Kremlin Surkov / Surkovian methods - which means they resist the saturation of LOL mental exploits.
I made a mess of organization and writing, it is dreadful writing, the dreadful hopelessness of the "Nightmare of History" (Joyce). over at: https://lemm.ee/post/64048496
If this path continues, the total mockery in USA continues, there won't be time for feeling hopeless. It is a privilege to feel hopeless - even if it is just me having a "bad day". The people in Palestine since the newest war started October 7, 2023 - have to just keep marching on in non-stop dread. They won't have a public Internet to scream at, their voice isn't heard at all.
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013
Rick Roderick:
I mean, in a way, it’s like demanding of yourself that you do what you say… which you want to demand at least of your friends… that they do most of the time what they say they’ll do. But it’s certainly a good demand to place upon, ah, your society, its leaders, and so on. The trouble is – just as I have stated before – we are blocked. We are blocked in a way by an unprecedented structure of what I have called here… sort of… cynical, sceptical reason. To me it’s historically unmatched. I have never read or heard of a period like this one.
Now, I have read about many historical periods. But not one in which you can talk to young people the way you can at the college level today, and find out that they believe… nothing. Want… nothing. Hope… nothing. Expect… nothing. Dream… nothing. Desire… nothing. Push ’em far enough and they’ll say: “Yeah, I gotta get a job. Spent a lot of money at Duke.” That’s not what I am talking about. They hope nothing. Expect nothing. Dream nothing. Desire nothing.
And it is a fair question to ask whether a society that produces this reaction in its young is worthy of existence at all. It really is. It’s worth asking that. Whether it’s worth being here at all. And my criticism of this society couldn’t get more bitter than it is in that case. It couldn’t possibly be.