On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 07:59:26 -0400, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >The church, who also collects a fee if I'm not mistaken. > >This means that someone who listen to religious programs on radio or >TV gets all his/her money worth ! :) I'm an atheist, however, in a good church a "high priest" perhaps is able to pick up varying moods of the "audience" and instead of preaching (s)he explains something and it really reaches the "audience". Apart from this, depending on the faith, the "audience" gets gifts, Catholics e.g. serve the blood and body of Jesus Christ, incense and real organ music. Remember watching the filmization of Rashômon by Akira Kurosawa. Since it's a movie, there's no interaction with the audience. In a church there is interaction with the audience. So while Akira Kurosawa explains simplest ethics repeated and repeated and repeated until the audience is bored as hell, a "high priest" could skip parts of an explanation or continue to explain the same thing, in a different style, that is more understandable by and/or less boring for the audience. It's the same with live music compared to radio and TV. Jerry García played never ending guitar solos nobody wants to hear, excepted of the Grateful Dead audience. IOW it also could be vice versa, something that is to boring and much, much too long for most people, in church or a concert hall could be continued and continued and continued, as long as the drugged audience likes to listen to crap played by drugged musicians. IOW the performers and the audience take the same drugs and are on the same level, this doesn't work for radio and TV. 2 Cents, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
