"Bruce J. Richman" wrote in message
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Robert Morein wrote:

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It's certainly possible that a person can act quite obnoxiously, defying
logic,
in one setting and behave in a more socially acceptable way elsewhere.
Whether
that would apply to the people you mention is open to questions that can
only
be answered from first-hand observation. I've never met or spoken to
anybody
that has met either one of them, AFAIK. Has anybody on RAO actually met
either
one or have any firsthand knowledge of their offline behavior? Given
Nousaine's zealous support of Arny's dogmas, I wouldn't count him as an
objective evluator when it comes to this question, which has nothing to do
with
audio, but everything to do with social interactions and their
appropriateness.

We've both been libeled and/or slandered by both of these folks, so for me
at
least, their credibility will always be suspect. That said, McCarty
appears to
be much more apt to engage in deceptive posting under pseudonyms, email
bombing
attempts (at least in my case and perhaps yours),

Definitely, in my case also.

widespread lying on various
newsgroups such as rec.audio.marketplace and other silly behavoirs that
are
quite transparent to most observers. I suspect your conclusion, if I read
you
correctly, that he is much more seriously disturbed, is definitely
warranted.

I have not met McCarty, but I have spoken to Jeff Wexler, who was his
business partner. In our conversation, Wexler seemed eager to disavow the
relationship. First he denied any business relationship with McCarty. When I
pointed out that his name appeared as "codirector", along with McCarty, on
http://www.coralseastudios.com, he said that IF he had a relationship with
McCarty, he had no control over what McCarty says or does.
The above, by itself, is not conclusive of anything. However, I have spoken
to a number of other people, residents of Cairns, Australia, who either
worked with him or know him in some other way. In most, but not all cases,
the individuals involved knew McCarty only superficially. Typically, they
did not know where he lived, but interacted with him in a limited setting,
such as a local organization. Some individuals in journalism and law
enforcement have highly specific knowledge of McCarty, however.

Highly telling, IMHO, is the fact that McCarty managed to involve the
brother of the P.M. of Australia in the failed Coral Seas Studios project,
as well as Jeff Wexler. A year later, the principle backer, ABN Amro, pulled
out. Was this because something in McCarty's personality surfaced over time?
In any event, it shows that McCarty has a capacity to charm. Eric Toline, a
production sound person from whom I purchased a PortaDAT remote that he used
to manufacture, met McCarty at the last NAB convention, and said, "FWIW, I
met Brian at the NAB convention in Las Vegas last Tuesday. Seemed pleasent
enough."

In the case of both McCarty and Krueger, there is an "idee fixee", a fixed
idea, that drives the thought process in a deviate direction. In Krueger's
case, it could be a messianic notion with respect to audio. In McCarty's
case, he has an unshakeable faith that the Internet provides him with a
shield of anonymity. This is false. But what kinds of crimes would some of
us commit if we were sure we would never get caught? While McCarty's
misbehavior is principally in the realm of civil violation, it's clear to
outside observers that the one thing McCarty's misbehavior cannot do is make
money.

In terms of therapy, my question would be: Is it possible to remove the
"idee fixee"? Can this cause improved adjustment of the individual?

Or is the idee fixee required by the individual for his own self-importance?