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Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by techbio on Sunday March 28, 2021 @10:49PM (#26617209)
That figures like Rush Limbaugh and their level of influence exist, as well as on the opposite of the media political spectrum, as self-fulfilling visions of the world, is one of the tragedies referenced in the article as revealed in Sowell's extensive research and (>50 books) publication.

Number of books and number of readers are not well correlated, news at 11.

Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by tomcam on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:32AM (#26617729)
What makes a figure like Rush Limbaugh a tragedy?
Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by techbio on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:30AM (#26617998)
That is not at all what I wrote. Apologies that my run-on sentence was difficult for you to parse.
Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by tomcam on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:51AM (#26618409)
Still can’t parse upon reinspection but am interested in understanding what you were getting at? Could not connect Limbaugh’s influence to any “tragedies” in the article even after rereading.
Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by techbio on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:22AM (#26618564)
CTRL-F, "visions"
Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by mat7447 on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:57AM (#26619456)
Rush Limbaugh exist, as well as on the opposite of the media political spectrum

Rush is a commie? On all the spectrums?

Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by techbio on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:21AM (#26619644)
These sound like extremely confused questions. My apologies.
Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by mat7447 on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:00AM (#26619495)
Opposite to media spectrum? What is opposite to media?
Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by techbio on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:19AM (#26619631)
Too late to edit the comment. If I had written "...opposite end of..." it might have been clearer.

I did not mean the opposite of a political spectrum, but since you raise the question, I am very optimistic that it exists.

Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by mat7447 on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:34AM (#26619730)
Well you could have been even more clearer than that, by not using double speek.
Re:Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist by techbio on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:01PM (#26628794)
Interesting that neither one of us seems to know what the other is talking about.