Have Audiophiles lost their CIVILTY!

If a certain someone gets their way, we're looking at 800,000 government employees losing their jobs which will lead to a massive recession. Let's see how much snark there is around here if that happens. 

I'll be laughing and saying life ain't fair and the world is mean to the cultists out there crying about their situation, wondering where their $5,000 dividend check is.

All the best,
Nonoise

good news: Climate Change has just ben solved. Musk is axing NOAA, there will be no one left to collect data. The terms have been banned anyway, so we will just fry blissfully without scientists telling us that it is a 100 degrees outside and will be 120 tomorrow 

People don’t care as much about one another anymore since Covid. As in, “ I don’t care about what you think”..

@grislybutter , that’s kind of/sort of the way that they "beat Covid" in Fl.

Whole lotta “toy boys” here overly defensive of their stuff.

Just put in a good word for the work Amir does over at ASR and watch the fireworks begin.

Insecurity begets hostility.

It’s magnified exponentially in autistic spectrum disordered technogeeks but that’s just my humble medical opinion.

For supreme discomfort, post Amir’s cable findings…

I've been dumping social media friends faster than they're firing federal employees. 

Lots of change past 10 years, not much change since you put up identical post 12/23 ...

@immatthewj "we are testing too much! Our problem is too much testing!"

@normb It’s magnified exponentially in autistic spectrum disordered technogeeks but that’s just my humble medical opinion.

Coo. Autism bashing. Coo. 

@grislybutter + 1 

I agree that societal changes have meant people are less civil to each other.  They are less face to face and simply more willing to be disrespectful to someone they don't see as a person, but just as an account on a forum.

Specifically regarding audio, the introduction of digital hasn't helped.  There are a whole lot of people trying to apply analog logic to the digital world and rejecting the advice of engineers who actually understand it.  There have always been tweaks and arguments over tweaks...cables, rocks, markers, demagnetizers, whatever...but now there is a whole new slew of tweaks for digital to argue over. 

Facts vs Lies

People understand pain and suffering, Anyone is free to believe what they will and get news or influence from social media, propaganda networks or PSYOP campaigns. They may not understand what they are fed, but they know pain and suffering. For Americans and others the pain is just starting.... and it will get worse.

For those who are lazy, uninvolved and don’t do their homework... they vote and make others suffer because of ignorance. They may not understand oligarchy but they understand pain.

@2psyop 

People understand pain and suffering

I used to think that. But during covid when people would prefer their "freedom" not to wear masks and to be able to scream into other people's face to their parents staying alive, I learned that a large % of the population just cares about their right to be stupid. Even death wasn't enough to learn - other people's. I think most of them, on their own deathbed came to their senses.  Covid was not a stuntman's gig, nobody got any entertainment out of watching things go seriously bad.

It’s magnified exponentially in autistic spectrum disordered technogeeks but that’s just my humble medical opinion.

odunsi - wanted you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXVxCe1C3nY

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I’m old fashioned. I was taught to believe in facts, ethics, manners, compassion, discipline, respect etc. Pretty sure it’s a Judeo-Christian thing?

Much easier maybe to just ignore these supposedly good practices that do not necessarily come easily. They don’t really seem to matter as much these days.

Let me give it a shot…..ahh, very strange sensation:  🧘‍♂️->>>>😡>>>>👺

We are civil  one by one... Not many against one....

Idiots gangstalk or scapegoat someone for any ideological reason...

«Thinking is a very solitary business with big profit though and no taxes» Groucho Marx

When you are in remission again, take turmeric pills on a daily basis and eat only once every 13, 14 hours or just once a day (if you get there). Many people in different parts of the world can eat just once a day and get by. Cancer cells (everyone has them in smaller numbers) consume a lot more nutrients a lot more frequently than healthy cells. By fasting on a consistent basis and spreading those meals out, you can keep their numbers under control.

The ’medical industry’, as you may know......well...this thread is bound to have all the lousy dudes crawling out from under their rocks soon enough, so, i suppose we shall just leave it there and move on...

Life is too short. I’m in my second title fight with cancer and it’s taught me for sure what’s important and what is not.

abe Lincoln said that if this country were to fall, it would be by its own hand. that is happening now.

I don't worry or argue about things that don't affect me personally. I definitely don't worry about things that I can't control. It works well. But if some people want to spend their time on this planet arguing and debating and calling each other names on chat boards I guess that is their business.

I don't particularly care for orange Jello...

One question raised by the OP's post for me is this: What is it about the audiophile hobby that would cause people to be any more decent to one another than they usually are? Is there something about audio that makes us more decent?  Refined sensibility? The desire to put experiences into words and talk to one another?

I guess I was surprised by some of the acrimony a while ago, but I'm not anymore. This group, by and large, has a fair amount of disposable income. That's correlated with being less compassionate, which is central to the question posed by the OP.

A related set of studies published by Keltner and his colleagues last year looked at how social class influences feelings of compassion towards people who are suffering. In one study, they found that less affluent individuals are more likely to report feeling compassion towards others on a regular basis….

In a second study….social class was measured by asking participants questions about their family’s level of income and education. The results of the study showed that participants on the lower end of the spectrum, with less income and education, were more likely to report feeling compassion while watching the video of the cancer patients…..

These findings build upon previous research showing how upper class individuals are worse at recognizing the emotions of others and less likely to pay attention to people they are interacting with (e.g. by checking their cell phones or doodling).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/

That horse left the barn twenty years ago.

To Doyle3433,

I find your words and how you articulate your response deeply expressive. Thank you for your candor and sharing. 
Enjoy the music 

Audiophiles are people and people have become increasingly less civil, especially online.