that character is higher than intellect. — Antony Nickles
I’m interested in the connection between: how to govern, with: understanding our discourse. As if, if we found out what mattered, how it matters, how it is lost or abandoned, we would do what is right. An epistemology not of knowledge or ethics would lead the republic, but of method, of possibility, of the conditions of our consent and agreement? — Antony Nickles
One has to step back from excessive exposure to repetitious daily news — Bitter Crank
You doing OK in these days of plague (one kind or another)? — Bitter Crank
And, tomorrow is the launch of the winter hiking season here in Florida, a HUGGGGGE day in my personal religion. So doing more than ok at the moment. — Hippyhead
Florida has hiking? — Professor Death
The purpose of television, for instance, is to sell audiences to advertisers using the content as bait. On the other hand, there is also a business of selling news. It takes a financial base to support news gathering, editing, and presentation, Even in the non-profit sector, NPR has to have revenue--more than it can get from fund drives (shudder); hence, those blasted "enhanced corporate support acknowledgements". No revenue, no publication. That's why so many newspapers have folded. — Bitter Crank
Lol. The closer book is "Mao's thoughts".What is the title on the Finnish book? At least Americans didn't have to worry about any dirty Marxists manipulating them. — Bitter Crank
I was going to make a claim for the golden age of television, but then remembered that in the middle of my golden era, Newton Minow proclaimed 1960s television to be "a vast wasteland". God, Minow hadn't seen anything yet. Now the wasteland has been enriched by a giant dung heap. (Minow is still alive - he's 94; I read that he was up to date on how bad commercial media continues to be.) — Bitter Crank
I'm in the space coast - any specific recommendations, within a couple hours? — Kevin
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