This seems a natural place to renew my suggestion for a survey of Glenn Show subscribers to get a feel for the demographic mix therein, as well as the distribution of subscribers' opinions on a variety of political issues. I suggested this in the last Q&A thread, and the idea seemed to have been well received by others.
I suspect that such a survey would show a much greater variety of thought than one would guess from many TGS comments sections. I hope so!
Why am I so curious about this? I think in part it's because in the past few years I've watched so many intelligent, charismatic, heterodox people develop a paying internet audience... only to then end up utterly captured by that same audience - or at least what they took to be their paying audience, based on a nonrepresentative sample. (It's good to know the *actual* composition of one's audience.) Mercifully, I see no evidence of that happening to Glenn, but at times when I read through the comments here, they remind me of the sorts of things written by the internet crazies who probably helped drive some of these other once sensible people over the edge.
Agreed on Santa Fe. I lived there for a couple of years, and it's a remarkable place - summer monsoons and all.
This seems a natural place to renew my suggestion for a survey of Glenn Show subscribers to get a feel for the demographic mix therein, as well as the distribution of subscribers' opinions on a variety of political issues. I suggested this in the last Q&A thread, and the idea seemed to have been well received by others.
I suspect that such a survey would show a much greater variety of thought than one would guess from many TGS comments sections. I hope so!
Why am I so curious about this? I think in part it's because in the past few years I've watched so many intelligent, charismatic, heterodox people develop a paying internet audience... only to then end up utterly captured by that same audience - or at least what they took to be their paying audience, based on a nonrepresentative sample. (It's good to know the *actual* composition of one's audience.) Mercifully, I see no evidence of that happening to Glenn, but at times when I read through the comments here, they remind me of the sorts of things written by the internet crazies who probably helped drive some of these other once sensible people over the edge.
Agreed on Santa Fe. I lived there for a couple of years, and it's a remarkable place - summer monsoons and all.
I think a breakdown like you mention would be interesting. Thanks for suggesting it.