Red State Vihara, Again
I keep thinking that I need to advertise Red State Vihara more than I do. I suck at self promotion.
I hate advertising. I am still not clear on whether any research shows that it works. I could look it up, but I don’t care that much, and I’m not sure I see how anyone could design a convincing way to study the question.
I really have a hard time believing, regardless, that anyone who can figure out how to watch YouTube videos does not also already know about Facebook and TikTok, yet those are the ads I see most commonly on YouTube.
I am on the Buddhist path mostly because i think the Buddha was right and the Christianity of my youth makes zero sense. These are my explicit reasons in the larger context of my suspicion that most people are wrong, or not right, most of the time, so doing what most people do is likely not the best bet.
But large groups of people sort of create their reality by sheer force of numbers. We are functionally a Chrisitan nation if only because nearly everyone defaults to some version of Christian belief for their moral theories and their world view, or so I gather from what they say.
My writing on Buddhism is a monument of sorts to the Buddhist path, one that is readily available the world over to anyone who can read English, which is much of the world, thanks to Christian…
