tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1784528822106192013.post4135310047408367442..comments2019-11-11T09:37:18.691+01:00Comments on Massive Blog: Massive Blog ≠ TV/RadioHerr Benchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849454572846866518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1784528822106192013.post-18779853231991692652010-10-19T15:23:21.109+02:002010-10-19T15:23:21.109+02:00My blog doesn't have a comment facility on it,...My blog doesn't have a comment facility on it, so if I wanted, I could happily delude myself that dozens of people were reading it and frothing at the mouth to comment, only to be denied by my stubborn insistence on Web 1.5 technology.James BChttp://sharonandjames.co.uk/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1784528822106192013.post-3237658099527873372010-10-19T15:03:26.583+02:002010-10-19T15:03:26.583+02:00I'm quite sure you're right to construe th...I'm quite sure you're right to construe the viewers' kingship collectively rather than distributively, since duarchies are complicated enough. One should not be too worried about taking the viewers as single entity either: it is common nowadays for mereologists to follow David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature, book 1 part 2 sect. 2) in thinking that pretty much any bunch of things can be considered as a unit. My worry, however, is that the viewers, though they constitute an entity, do not constitute the right sort of entity to be a king. <br /><br />A government or a tribunal can be made of a group of people and still take decisions as one, but the viewers don't do that. They exhibit patterns of behaviour but there's no causal connection between the actions of one viewer and those of another. No unity of action, no kingship. I suppose that's why the demos in a democracy doesn't do as much cracking as the autarch in an autocracy.Michael Bench-Caponhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13715068990919309271noreply@blogger.com