coffeeguyzz wrote:Plant
Yesterday's (Dec. 5) Georgia rally by Trump was watched live by over 275,000 people on RSBN livestream.
The OAN feed had ~120,000 live viewers.
For context, this ~400,000 cohort roughly equates to the circulation numbers of the #4 and #5 US newspapers ... the NY Post and LA Times.
The fact that you may be completely unaware of what RSBN and OAN are is secondary in significance to the obvious fact that these hundreds of thousands of people have vastly different 'world narratives' than - perhaps - you do.
Thats interesting.
I had no idea the OAN site had so many followers and viewers and all I know about it is that it was banned by FACEBOOK.
AND you're right--- I've never even heard of RSBN before.
coffeeguyzz wrote:I am a staunch advocate for both 'Science' and 'Reason' itself.
While veering off into Robert Pirsig's 'Church of Reason' concept is far beyond the scope (and, possibly, relevance), of this post, suffice to say my respect for the gainful employment of these mechanisms does not shroud the intrinsic, ever evolving nature of these matters.
I read Robert Pirsig a long time ago. IMHO His concept of the "The Church of Reason" is actually just an example of sloppy thinking. Pirsig seems to have some kind of dislike for universities, so he maintains that a real physical University with its classrooms and professors isn't the "real" University but instead the knowledge taught there is the "real" university so the "real" university would continue to exist even if the physical University was closed. This is obviously nonsense. Pirsing is just using sloppy language. If a university closes then it is gone...it no longer exists. The body of knowledge does continue to exist, but the University is dead and closed and gone. They aren't the same thing of course. Pirsig is incorrectly claiming that the word "university" means "body of knowledge" ....but it doesn't. The word university is derived from the Latin phrase
universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars", i.e. the university is the actual community of people, ie. the institution....not the knowledge they have.
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coffeeguyzz wrote:Off topic, that Hi Crush outfit that sparked our last back and forth regarding Chesapeake's banruptcy has just emerged from Chapter 11 and appears to be stronger than ever. Whatever one may think of the US Bankruptcy code, it routinely provides pathways for minimal destruction when fuck ups, greed, happenstance upheavals arise in the marketplace.)
Glad to hear Hi-Crush has emerged from Chapter 11. Chesapeake energy, on the other hand, is still in bankruptcy I believe.
CHEERS!