When I give to public radio, I do it knowing that I won't miss the money--because the good karma I get in return will more than make up for my donation.This is what you get when the Elite Liberal Media starts paying more attention to evangelicals, Pentecostals, and garden-variety crazy-religious-provincials: the (shudder) prosperity quasi-Dharma. Makes the New Age scare of the 80s look like harmless self-help crap...
The prison writings of Alexei Navalny
19 hours ago
This is what happens when you put jazz on public radio instead of classical music. We have the same problem here in Austin. Bunch of self-obsessive navel-gazers. Geesh!
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Not that the line of thinking isn't shudder-inducing to me too, but it looks like that's from a listener testimonial... Also, people will say anything during pledge drives. Jerome McDonnell once promised people superpowers such as invisibility and flight if they pledged.
ReplyDeleteYes, it was from a testimonial, though I was surprised at how the on-air person picked it up and ran w/ it after they played the testimonial. At any rate, it didn't actually bother me--I just thought it was funny. This may be an example of one of those posts where my sarcasm flies in so many directions at once that the whole thing reads as oddly sincere...
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten about JM's pledge-drive antics. Though I did wake up this morning to a Chicago classic: the twice-annual Ira Glass barrel-o'-weird.
I just liked it a lot because I've been trying to work the phrase "prosperity quasi-Dharma" into casual conversation; much like myself and a certain guitar-playing former roommate and I find curious ways of incorporating the words "infelicitous neologism" into activities as mundane, as, say, "blogging."
ReplyDeleteI don't really understand anything any of you said.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah? Well...you and I have the same name!
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