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


Let me explain. I have extremely high and very vague standards. I look down on everything, and I mean everything, never talking about specifics or my own point of reference. I’ve looked down not just on people and equipment but science and facts as well. They are far far beneath me.  It is all too much for me to explain, but I am sure you are all doing it wrong.  WRONG, with a bold, underlined and hooker-script WRONG font used here.

I start these crazy troll posts which are incredibly successful in nabbing a lot of the regulars in audiogon.

I should be very happy with myself, but sometimes I have to wonder if my level of jerk is too much for all of you too handle. I’m trying to blaze a path, but are you with me audiofools or not???
erik_squires
@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*
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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.