Ken Fritz article

We are rooted in something greater than ourselves and we play a game we choose to learn... We cannot even condemn ourselves , we can just realize the road we take is the wrong one or not ...

Some said, even thinkers that we are not free in our choices...This is self contradictory claim; we are free to put a specific content in our thought and judge this content we created and choose it or not as from ourself or not at the end looking at this content accepting it or rejecting it ... Geometry teach freedom...This is why Plato love it so much...

We can stay a divided realm or unite ourself to greater than us because what is greater than us is also "us" ... Truth is there to be loved before to be known and cannot be known before being loved... Wisdom pass over our limited knowledge...

Fritz had learned and do his journey well as he planned it for himself and all of us... As a teaching ... as a work of love ... We can accept it or throw it off...We cannot judge him ...

As for each one of us  , his purpose in life was greater than himself..

There's a "rule" somewhere that states "if you want expand some part of your life, it will pushback on others." I suppose we want to chime in and reveal our version of "the greater good", "a balanced life" and where to place our priorities. Sometimes it's difficult to separate narcissistic behaviors from efforts to improve the human condition for others.  What may appear to be narcissistic at present, may in fact, prove to be a positive force for humanity years/centuries later.  And, when the final "scorecard" is tallied, we may determine that the casualties (human or otherwise) were worth the price of admission for what transpired.  

The goal of "the world's greatest stereo" appears to be too narrow in scope to be impactful to a large number of people, The "balance sheet" doesn't produce a positive in the column of human interaction.  IF this system (and room) would have been painstakingly disassembled (like a Frank Lloyd Wright designed building), reassembled in an appropriate venue, and preserved for millennium, then we might be having a different conversation.  But, it appears we got to the end of the story, without a great deal of fanfare, or perseverance.

Meandering thoughts by Jack Handey.

There's a quote from Tolstoy about the uniqueness of unhappy families that probably applies to this man's life.  I don't think his audiophile obsession was the source of his husband/1st wife or father/son problems.  The root cause was his personality and behavior. He was an imperfect human and not everyone was willing to tolerate him.

My takeaway from the article is that whatever anyone achieves will never survive.  You could conquer half of the world and a few hundred year pass and it looks just like it did before you were born.  Of course, you could always build a Great Pyramid.

@onhwy61 …”The root cause was his personality and behavior.”

+1

I agree. Really creative and hardworking people are frequently like this, Steve Jobs, James Camron. People around him must make choices. My father treated me poorly, so, as soon as I was 18 I ended our relationship. 
 

I also think he was pretty happy, but drove the people around him crazy. He was really successful at work and in his pursuit of audiophilia. Many men beat their wives and children, or leave and do not provide for them. You could grow up in many parts of the world and starve to death, be killed in war or genocide. He provided, and achieved his lifelong goals, and got to enjoy it for some years.