Disagreements and Conflicts between Audiophiles have we lost our brotherhood and maturity?

@jpwarren58 So true! I've simply listened and observed much of my life, funny how people assume you're  one of them and speak unfiltered.

Nostalgia can bring out golden memories. I recall bitter arguments and name calling from early days of social media and this site in particular. No doubt there has been change, likely mostly in me in that in my learning phase I used this forum as a resource, many of those members no longer here, sigh.

I agree civil discourse in general is on a downward spiral as people have become inured to all the fussing and fighting. For far too many free speech means exactly that, including being free of consequence. Well, sorry to welcome you to the human race but the things we say have consequence, and our present society/culture is one of those consequences.

Seems Increasing privilege exactly correlates with increased complaint.

Based on a historical perspective  a large proportion of modern day citizens in developed countries are amongst the most privileged that have ever lived on this earth. Many who live with privilege over a lifetime lose perspective of their advantage. I'd more than suggest vast majority of audiophiles extremely privileged humans, have virtually nothing to complain about.  

As for conflict, while inevitable with self interested humans competing for limited resources, certainly seems to be on the uptick and more celebrated today. Perhaps this due to the privileged feeling their privilege in peril.

The "one of them" in my case is white guy. Don't even need to 'front' to play this role.

I agree there is a difference between those who worked hard and those who inherited their good fortune. The issue is opportunity, do we really believe there is level playing field here?

As for 'fronting' we can't get past the skin we're born in, but my, my , my we sure can represent or misrepresent ourselves in so many ways. One can both learn from being 'the fly on the wall', or by playing a provocateur role. I've been told I'm being a devil's advocate more than a few times in life, does this mean those with the opposing view are God's advocates?  Does everything have to be a zero sum game.

Humans have so much emotional attachment to so many relatively inconsequential things, save the passion for more important things. Lately I've been thinking the entire human race becoming like puppets on strings, strings being pulled such that we're all kicking each other in the a##.