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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:53:28 GMT, wrote:

We all know what you are Ludo.

**** off.

Mike, may I ask a sensible question: what do you have to gain by
proving that ABX is a useful tool in comparing hi-fi products? I mean,
all these posts, thousands of words and so much passion--what's it all
about? I don't think even Arnie has written as much as you in defence
of ABX. I'm mystified.

I don't think you'll get much light. Insight is not one of the virtues
that sectarians foster..
Most of the true believers don't listen to music (with capital M).
Even the arch-priest said that prolonged listening is a waste of time.
Most don't attend symphonic or chamber music concerts and shut it off
when it comes on their car radio. The music they know is the background
noise on their best buy "systems" and when shopping in the supermarket
and an occasional rock concert in their younger years. They don't want
to recreate the sound of unamplified orchestral instruments because
they don't listen to it, don't know it and don't miss it
The chapel makes them feel as good as "those snarky, superior types ".
As good? No, better- they have a set of dogmas with salvation in the
paradise of "science" (high school level). The unsaved just delude
themselves praying to their imaginary false Gods. Like all the true
believers they do not need to observe their dogmas- many of them,
probably most never participated in an ABX trial and don't use it to
shop- all they need is to believe.
The flattering belief that what they are familiar with is as good as it
gets explains the passion they put in defending their dogmas. That
explains why they'll list phony references to nonexistent arguments,
why they post 10 times a day and why they end discussions with
"****bags" and "****-offs" when really pressed into a corner.. The rage
chokes them. Someone dares to suggest that there may be a whole world
out there that they have not got an inkling of.
Now I'm going to say something that may make me unpopular even with an
egalitarian Aussie.
There are not "cultures". There is not a white culture and a black
culture and a pop culture. There is only one culture.. Hundred years
ago those aspiring to better themselves strove to acquire it-; with the
rise of universal literacy (at elementary level) pop became triumphant
and resents those who don't join. John Grisham is as good as John
Donne. Michael Crichton has better plotting than Marcel Proust and
those who listen to chamber music are just pretending to enjoy it to
humiliate the believers. The sectarians, will always resent those who
question their faith that they are as good as anyone else. Having a
little doubt lurking at the bottom of the psyche makes them even more
aggressive.
The above is a lesson on how to become popular and get votes,
Ludovic Mirabel

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