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Re: Your statement is paternalistic in extremis!

Hi Tom

It seems to me In more recent times Madison avenue et al has pretty much taken over as the major influence in our society.
We depend on its primary commercial pathway (TV) for most of our world information and as a result our culture is being twisted to make us better, thoughtless consumers and like now, to have only seen one side of world events for many years.

Along with the Madison Ave’s "ethically blind cash vacuum" liberal approach has come another step to condition us, the Politically Correct movement.
This movement at its core is essentially the proposition that one can pick up a dog turd at the clean end and smoke it like a fine cigar and that you are a backwards fool not to see it that way.

In the old days engineers would get serious and argue about cables, what they can and can’t do from an electrical standpoint, now, most just laugh when you talk exotic cables.
The knowledge base in engineering has diverged so far from the hifi market’s lore that it is another world, like Alchemy and Chemistry, Crystal healing and Penicillin, Pyramid power and power plants.

In many cases, people in hifi spend money on things they believe and enjoy as fine cigars, who’s job is it to tell them other wise?. No ones job, the only "Jobs" there are that pay are in selling and perpetuating the doggie cigars.

On the flip side are many mfr’s who’s posture is perfection, who’s products are marketed in mass market chains. Go to a mass retailer and ask to hear the best system they have. No wonder most people think good sound is a couple dice cube speakers and a show box sub woofer flat to 150Hz.
Here is it also the sales expedient at work.
Best,

Tom Danley

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