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Diary of Anne Frank April 24, 2025 Carl Sagan: "Celebration of Ignorance", "Celebration of out-group failure", "Celebration of dehumanization", "Celebration of FAFO"

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

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  • Thursday, April 24, almost evening

    The rest of the world is going to see that Americans only used social media in 2024 and January - May 2025 to react to Elon Musk & Donald Trump. There wasn't a daily hashtag / front page / news stories covering massive social media with people asking for re-humanization, stop making "Republicans Hate Earth", "Republicans Hate Humanism" the front-face of USA. All People praying to OTHER NATIONS for psychology help to rescue people from bad.

    • Dear World:

      My neighbors in my nation have all adopted the attitudes of: clean water is bad if a little more profit can be made for rich people, drill baby drill and use even more oil than we used before just because we think oil is some kind of tradition and identity like a ritual, health care is for rich people and poor people should suffer with a lot of paperwork and red-tape anxiety and feeling nobody cares if they die, we weren't prepared for the last pandemic in late 2019 and people seem ultra-prepared for the next disease outbreak to encourage it and death-wish people they disagree with even harder, people have changed - maybe it's the social machines that made them care less about goodness love and compassion and only care about hating people they don't like, on and on and on, school teachers in our nation are treated like shit and now everyone believes the worst ideas and values in our future, on and on, show we are human and we have made human mistakes and we aren't just all sheep following the mockery and entertainment that the White House has created that makes our nation look like it is unable to deal with Twitter-lords on social machines by re-humanizing social media.

  • Thursday April 24, 2025 mid-day

    Again, it has to be said out loud, let it be known: Social Media users, everyday people, We The People, feel zero sense of civic duty to cult-deprogram the White House, Fox News audience, Newsmax audience, people in non-reality with anti-science. People are using all their free time on social machines to mock and insult and message "hate harder" against Americans they disagree with who are under the influence of Russian information warfare

    • Thursday April 24, 2025 mid-day

      ENTIRE world media systems, classic press from all other nations, is giving feedback to USA that we are out of control, living in anti-reality, showing "hate those we disagree with" values, yet social media users are amused + entertained by what is happening instead of asking every psychologists + psychiatrist in the world to drop what they are doing to to rescue USA from mass psychosis using social media platforms

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M

  • The authors of the Constitution could never have predicted

    Yes, they did, and they created a special education and teaching tool, the Great Seal of the United States of America, to educate all the population on thinking systems. It is printed today on the dollar bill. Alas, we entirely stopped teaching the meaning in schools about 100 years ago and we are paying the price since year 2013.

     

    ::: ____________
    "Esoteric spirit that moved not only the people who drew that [Great] Seal, but the entire philosophy the early republic was based upon. And how utterly deplorable and regrettable and terrible it is that all of this has been virtually totally forgotten by our days. And that we have held, The American People, have held in their very hands, handed to them by people like Franklin and Jefferson and all kinds of others... One of the most splendid treasures of spiritual philosophy - applicable to all manner of human purposes. And we have discarded it. And we are running around like beggars, the world over, picking up crumbs from every kind of anarchists, Marxists, this thing, fascists, this thing that thing, all over the world. All of which, put together, could never come close to the psychological spiritual wisdom that was given to us to begin with... and that we have simply forgotten about and thrown away. And how incredibly unfortunate and terrible this is. And, I know for a fact, that Joseph Campbell feels this very very keenly." - Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller, 1987 lecture

  • Thursday, April 24, 2025 late morning

    The mass mind (Howard Bloom terminology), mass man (Marshall McLuhan terminology), "hive mind" (old Reddit terminology) of USA society is raging with pro-hate hate harder behaviors and messaging. The 5,000 Kremlin alternate reality screen games cooked-up with Cambridge Analytica psychologists and psychiatrist to manipulate minds are entirely being avoided as topics as people promote hate others when encountering disagreements and misunderstandings. IT IS VERY VERY VERY BAD now, so far beyond anything I witnessed / experienced in December 2010 and January 2011 in North Africa during the Arab Spring... as best as I can tell, we are beyond Nazi Germany levels of anti-humanism in people's minds and attitudes, people are primed to self-harm and wreck the USA in promoting hate harder values. Beyond words, beyond language, very very bad right now.

  • Idea merging / expansion points

    1. I think Joseph Campbell in Skywalker Ranch interviews at age 83 had the courage to declare Levant religions had become more about "celebration of failure" / "celebration of having an excuse (faith in in-group story) to celebrate the failures of the out-group" / "celebration of differences to fight over, (dehumanize the out-group over)" / "celebration of violence and hate generated by misunderstanding (ignorance)"
    2. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1954 doctorate study of world war two Japan / Germany / values and the problem of hate brain chemistry / hate inverting good from bad
    3. What Surkov Russia's key behavior insight of crowds / Cambridge Analytica psychologists and psychiatrists found as deepest motivation - touching on #1 and #2 in this list
    4. Patterns of cheering on failures. competing, losers, mocking

    • 4. Celebrating negatives

      "The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media"

      HDTV Fox New, HDTV CNN, Reddit social media, Lemmy social media, Bluesky social media, Twitter social media, Facebook social media, Mastodon ocial media, Instagram social media, Threads social media, smartphone 5G media systems.

      "the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less)"

      Memes, especially images and reaction video gif images / reaction video clips - Neil Postman's 1985 ideas in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" book... which is 10 years before Carl Sagan. And Postman's book is about "Celebrating misunderstandings and celebrating ignorance to death with media systems"

      "especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"

      Especially . most importantly - a celebration of failure to understand, failure to comprehend, failure to teach and educate, failure of others to "FO" in "Fuck around and Find Out", celebration of warfare, celebration of terrorism, celebration of depression, celebration of suicides, celebration of self-harm, celebration of bullying "the failures", celebration of "seeing others be losers", celebration of disease being spread because people FAFO with science medicine, celebration of seeing others sick from FAFO with health insurance and job and housing, etc.

      • "celebration of terrorists failing in Palestine October 7, 2023" - the FAFO "find out" of celebrating the revenge on terrorists. Celebrating that 10 years earlier October 8, 2013 Malala's book failed to change and educate Palestine terrorists / Islamic society reform. By avoiding the book, "celebration of ignorance" that Mahala's book was ignored and not taken seriously by Muslims / Islam for a decade. "celebration of ignorance" that weapon systems to break into Israel won, celebrating that murder ignorance was done. Celebrating that people do not get along, celebrating ignorance of compassion and ignorance of betterment through Malala's education and gender shifts of aggression in society.

      • "celebration of ignorance, that other people are bamboozled and tricked into living in non-reality"
        "celebrating that others have been manipulated by professionals at Cambridge Analytica since March 2013 to be in alternate-realities"
        "celebrating that Russia won using the Menace of Unreality since year 2013 so people in conversations can celebrate the ignorance of people who don't understand that a nation-state used active measures on media systems and won their hearts and minds"
        "celebration of ignorance that other people can be called stupid, that people celebrate on social machines by calling others dumb, celebrating ignorance by avoiding rescuing people from Kremlin alternate-reality warfare for over a decade"
        "celebration of ignorance, celebrating how stupid other people are on social machines, messaging day after day that it is hilarious and funny that others are dumb and stupid, offering no education on egoism and morality and celebrating ignorance that other people have"
        "celebration of ignorance that other people are inside cults of memes and messages and celebrating that they don't comprehend the mental mechanics of cult behaviors and cult systems"

      • "celebration that conservatives failed"
        "celebration that Fox News audience FAFO / failed to learn from better information sources, celebrating that Fox News audiences are dumb, celebrating that Fox News audiences are manipulated and FAFO deserve it"
        "celebrating MAGA trusts and believes an American status symbol - Donald Trump - celebrating that MAGA has ignorance, celebrating the ignorance of MAGA as entertainment and sport -leopards ate their face - deserved it, celebrating that ignorance won, celebration of ignorance"
        "celebrating that conservatives failed, because celebrating that education and learning and teaching failed, celebrating that ignorance won, celebration of ignorance, celebration that competitive education values / competition to get into name-brand school systems in USA society lead to ignorance that others have failed with"
        "celebrating that conservatives failed, celebrating the films Dumb and Dumber that Carl Sagan gave as examples, celebrating Fox News as Dumb and Dumber film, celebrating Joe Rogan as Dumb and Dumber film, celebrating that others go to poor education and information sources, celebration of ignorance that other people failed because competition matters more to people than rescuing people from ignorance, celebrating that others failed to comprehend and understand goodness and stuck with conservative misunderstandings"
        "celebrating that others are weak and failed in their mind / learning / study. Celebration of ignorance, celebration that others are more ignorant than your group or self, celebrating that others failed because of ignorance, celebration of ignorance"
        "celebration of ignorance in the form of celebrating kicking people who have been abused by predator Rupert Murdoch with Fox News content, predatory wealth televangelism, defeated people. Celebrating that others were abused by ignorance of Fox News HDTV, celebrating the ignorance won"
        "celebration of ignorance n the form of mocking Church / Bible readers who avoid Bible verse "1 John 3:17" understanding of the problem of Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Donald Trump. Celebrating the ignorance of Clergy in the Church instead of using social machine systems to correct the ignorance with front-page postings and top hashtags. Celebrating the ignorance of Bible verse "1 John 4:20". Celebration of ignorance that others / other people have a literacy problem of reading The Bible"

    • 3. Surkov insight

      Contradictory Vaudeville government methods of Kremlin and White House creates what Joseph Campbell was describing in 1987 in Middle East / Levant faith systems.

      Video: Vladislav Surkov Russia Kremlin "Contradictory Vaudeville" Post-Modern Politics - Unreality Menace from 2014 BBC Adam Curtis
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9_L9GRRsQo

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