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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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(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 3 weeks ago (2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

"The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own." - University of Toronto's Marshall McLuhan

 

All war is love of something or someone, fetish of something or someone, killing an enemy is because you love your homeland. Killing an enemy of a religion, infidel, gentile, holy war - is because you love your science fiction story.

 

"I need my Love To Translate" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqotifaBzrM

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
page 7
https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Page_7

 

With her issavan essavans and her patterjackmartins about all
them inns and ouses. Tilling a teel of a tum, telling a toll of a tea-
ry turty Taubling. Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs
à gross if we are, about to believe. So pool the begg and pass the
kish for crawsake. Omen. So sigh us. Grampupus is fallen down
but grinny sprids the boord. Whase on the joint of a desh? Fin-
foefom the Fush. Whase be his baken head? A loaf of Singpan-
try's Kennedy bread. And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?
A glass of Danu U'Dunnell's foamous olde Dobbelin ayle. But,
lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through
that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for
he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene.
Almost rubicund Salmosalar, ancient fromout the ages of the Ag-
apemonides, he is smolten in our mist, woebecanned and packt
away. So that meal's dead off for summan, schlook, schlice and
goodridhirring.