Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon?

No. You're not a jerk.
A working class hero, is something to be...

Eric, if you think you need help, you should get it from a professional that  can help. That being said , I know many people out of what can be considered very intelligent.  I am a computer guy for a research R&D facility and know dozens of PHD scientists from everywhere around tne world.  These people are crazy smart.  But at what they do! Some cannot cannot change the oil in their car, but can invent new materials from a molecular level.  Some have real socialization issues. In other words, difficult to get along with.
On the other hand i have a dyslexic friend with the most awkward humor.  I would say he is one of the most intelligent of anyone I have ever met.
 Only tech school grad in electronics.  He walks into a broken factory that cannot make widgets.  Not knowing anything walks in, oh, I  an fix that!.  Few people are left that  an troubleshoot TTL technology. Most are dead that made the 60 year old production facilities.  Mechanical problem....No problem, he can fix it. No parts available? No problem, he has a metal lathe. Needs welding, he an do it.  A bad indusrial electric motor, he can fit that too. Bad bearings somewhere? No problem.  Does it measure and cut red hot pipe? Does it use micorowave power to dry leather?  Does it use three phase high voltage, current to heat that bar stock. I could go on to fill a page.
  No one gets Steves jokes, but we love him anyway. 
Just because you notice things no one else does is a gift!  Using your God given intellegence in the wrong way will be damaging to you.  Make it fun like my super smart friend.  Challange yourself to invent a better way to help people, and society and you will find yourself really busy finding solutions to problems or making improvement to existing product.   Being a critic is only bad if thats all you do and are and not willing to make it better. Your not a jerk, you notice things missed by most of us or have a different perspective which is not  bad, just different.

@pcrhkr....I suspect the gist of your post is what the man is about...*s*

And I recognize in self what your friend Steve has a tendency to be and act like.... Having done the improbable enough times that some started to take it for granted.  And any 'glass ceiling' was composed of family members that, as a rule, tended to barely understand what they ought to be doing to avoid frustrating me to the point of saying:

"Goodbye, it's been real fun. Not as much fun as real, but...."

...and, after awhile, one tires of pulling rabbits out of one's b*tt when a hat wasn't available...or considered 'too expensive'....

...when they went there later, anyway.

Erik Is Not a Jerk.

I'm happy to be one on demand.  More practiced at it....;)

And if one doesn't 'get' my humour...well, I persist anyway. *L*

Not angry at you, no.  Just....ranting at the walls...*s*

Where is geoffkait when you need him so we can fight fire with fire...

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You pin heads don’t need me to answer for you!
Think for yourselves for once. Who do you think I am, Doctor Know? 🤗
Try it sometime, you might discover you actually have a brain.
Don’t be a cube ◼ rube, go ape!🐒

There is nothing wrong with looking down on fraud such as some pop chart musicians who have little training but claim they don't need it because "I was born with natural talent," or claiming without any significant education to know more about a specific subject, along with all subjects in general, than any PhD who specialized in that subject, or some good old boys with enormous beer bellies spending a couple of Saturday afternoons playing paintball in their trailer park over a case of beer and claiming themselves equal to combat veteran Navy SEALS. Dante, in his Divine Comedy placed the fraudulent deeper in Hell than the violent. A generation before mine said if you accept everything you stand for nothing. If that is what you do, then because you defend the human dignity of the rest of us, you will never make it in a dream to become a jerk.
I have my opinions and sides in rivalries in audio of what I like, but I don't denigrate other approaches. But don't take my word for it. Anyone who doubts me is welcome to check my property with a Geiger counter to prove I do not have a stash of Tzar Bombas to use against those who listen to push-pull amplifiers instead of single-ended triodes.

A well thought out contrarian perceptibly revering truth (to some notably, useful degree) - is as admirable as it is necessary. If there's some wit & a little humour intrinsic, then it's aspiring to my favourite Shakesperian character.  The court jester in King Lear. One who always simultaneously spoke the clear truth - while being absurdly humorous.  A wondrous thing to be & do - if you can pull it off.
You need real integrity to pull it off.  Your question here & followup comments are not less than a useful start.

I propose Kenjit as the poster who best exemplifies your description. 

Amazing how many read the first post, and nothing else.

i suspect they do that erik, because based on the first post, this one really isn’t interesting enough to read all the rest

There is only one true Jerk and that is The Jerk

Nice troll discussion 

"God give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us"
Robert Burns. 

Eric is that you? OMG where have you been? I thought maybe you dropped off for a while to pursue other interests. It's good to see you back! So lets get down to business.
A lot of anger is circulating, must be something in the air. Even so we are here for you, no worries. All for one and one for all. Eric, this is going to be a good day!

@erik_squires wrote:

"Technically, my post is a parody."

Well done!

I’d like to phrase my $.02 worth of commentary in the form of an allegory:

Once upon a time there was a family whose value system included kindness to other creatures. They received a dog which had a particular behavior disorder. Upon entering the house the dog would run into the living room and defecate on the carpet, and then (being unusually athletic) would jump up on the table and perform an enthusiastic happy dance.

The family tried to communicate to the dog that this behavior was counter-productive, but apparently the family and the dog had fundamentally different and ultimately irreconcilable goals.

Much as it challenged their value system, the family finally realized that it would be best for all concerned for the dog’s status to no longer be "inside dog". They decided that the dog would no longer be allowed inside the house. The dog was free to defecate and happy-dance to its heart’s content, but only outside the house, not inside. The dog adjusted to being an "outside dog", and the family adjusted to their living room returning to its previous feces-free status.

(And no, I was not named after this particular dog.)

Duke

pcrthkr, I think your post was most interesting and I also think there is a lot of truth about individuals that are so intelligent they lack social skills. Since  most everything is so compartmentalize the same geniuses do not know who they are creating this technology for, good or evil.  

I miself luvs to reed yur posts. It es veree entertaneing sum tymes. Not to mention enformayshunal.
But then agin, I aint that sofisticated. I hears what I hears when I hears it. Thets all I no.

baclagg, I love your posts as well and have cheerfully read every one of them. I just want to let you know, if the shoe fits, wear it.

...well I guess if you have to ask that question.