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In Reply to: RE: I have dozens of brand new Cds …. posted by regmac on March 09, 2015 at 06:51:20
...share your shrink as you pursue dealing with your superiority complex.
Or is the condescension really inferiority?
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"... dealing with your superiority complex."
Oh come on. There's nothing arrogant or superior insofar as noting the obvious. No one would argue that compulsive eating is not a mental disorder; likewise compulsive gambling, and drinking. Psychologists write of people suffering from compulsive sexual disorders. So what are we to make of compulsive collectors?
Just the other day, a chap on television was complaining about his own compulsive shoe purchases. He has hundreds of pairs of shoes (still in the boxes) stacked up in his closets and basement that he's never worn. How is that different from the fellow who has hundreds or thousands of CDs he's never opened, much less listened to? I'm sure these chronic CD collectors have gone to the trouble of spending good money purchasing storage units for their CDs that will never be used (by them). They are not unlike the guy who purchases expensive bookcases and then buys hundreds of books (he has no intention of reading) just to impress his friends.
When one reads that someone owns 20 dogs or 30 cats or hundreds of shoes or thousands of CDs one can be forgiven for suspecting that such people may very well be (at minimum) half a bubble off plumb. Perhaps "quirky" would be a much nicer term, but make no mistake about it, there is some mental compulsion that keeps forcing such people to make the same moronic purchase over and over.
At least in the case of vintage wine, car and stamp collecting one can make the case that their collection will appreciate in value. Not so with CDs and shoes.
...and what of the compulsion to continually point it out?That must be a conservative psychosis.
Edits: 03/09/15
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