Stephen Gutknecht
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Stephen Gutknecht
@roundsparrow.bsky.social
Burned out autistic.
The USA as a society has adopted hate and mob mentality values, technology lust and dehumanization. It seems like media ecology teaching 1980's/1990's need more attention in 2024 and 2025. "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
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“population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

USA 2025, meme addicts USA
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“The fact is, I think, that my friends really didn't know. They didn't know because they didn't want to know; but they didn't know. They could have found out, at the time, only if they had wanted to very badly.”
― Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45. Published year 1955
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"two ears to hear the words of love. As I found with my ear, no one knows how much power they have in their each and every organ until they lose one” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: Girl Who Stood Up for Education, Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013 #BeforeOctober7 #AssertMalala #WordWokeWake
December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#DiaryOfRoundSparrow

It's gone on since June 16, 2015 ... so many years.

Donald Trump has tons of friends, he loves golf course + fiction storytelling. Why do so many people think he is the "only one" who can lead the USA nation? The one thing Trump provides above all else #RealityTV Entertainment
December 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Reposted by Stephen Gutknecht
Public social media in USA was regulated, you had to get a license for public radio. Ham radio, CB radio, #KBRV0896 - I got a #RadioShack radio for Christmas at age 13 and had unlimited access - but had to identify myself. That was all trashed for popular media.

#BBS telephone area codes, identity
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Public social media in USA was regulated, you had to get a license for public radio. Ham radio, CB radio, #KBRV0896 - I got a #RadioShack radio for Christmas at age 13 and had unlimited access - but had to identify myself. That was all trashed for popular media.

#BBS telephone area codes, identity
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM