Stereophile, no more bench tests????!!!!

A domino of thought conclusion, a nugget of a new position/view on reality... can be found in my prior post,

ie...this is why there is such a high level of correlation between pathological religious adherence, and the dogged demands for overt scientism we tend to see on audio forums.

The dark ages mid-level religious clerk unconscious mindset did not go anywhere in the past 1000 years.

They’re still here.... and devoted to ’science’ and ’engineering’. Scenarios, backdrops, and circumstance change.... but the people and their wiring have not gone anywhere.

FYI...that’s not religion and ..FYI, that’s not science. Bigtime bassackward.

Read the T-shirt. It says, "Got Cow 97?"

The measurements are still there, IIRC, and I think John/Stereophile now possibly owns the audio precision test bed? Whereas he had it on extended loan originally, from reading his earliest comments on such...

George, you are leaping to conclusions that don’t exist, looking for strawmen to prop up so you can punch them out.

For those who wish to continue to rail, or take a flaming jog/slow run down imaginary rant road to some imaginary finish line, where you get high fives from all the crowd as you head toward the finish line..... try to understand that in reality, in the complex subject of moving reality, 97% of the population is wrong..and that the design of the brain is to not work -to not think.

The human brain’s purpose is to think as little as is required and then go back to not thinking. This keeps the taxation of the brain upon the body’s resources to as low a level as possible. That’s the design spec. Rise up, come to conclusion quickly, then shut down. That’s it. To go back to unconscious autopilot on as much as possible when the moment of thought is concluded. If you pay attention, you can catch yourself doing it just about as often as you breathe.

Which is why 97% of the population is always wrong. As the first answer or initial conclusion is invariably way off. Especially since it is tied to prior conclusions and projections of the unconscious as it filters and informs the conscious mind. We truly are a square peg being pounded into a round hole, and mostly unaware of it.

Go outside, look out the window, walk down the street, and look for this. It’s right there. Everywhere.

Only 3% of the population are truly the drivers of society, if the cow 97 can be convinced in the given scenario (in whatever way). But that is all a complex mess that takes many hours and book length lectures to flesh out.

Imagine wearing a t-shirt that  says "got cow 97?". Try explaining that to the people who ask....might meet the odd interesting individual. As, at 3% ...it is going to be individuals. And they'll be tough to find. Wear the shirt, give them a sonar ping.

So, the reasonable and open conclusion is that reasonable thinking people tend to to find themselves always attacking and undressing/adressing illiteracy and it’s projections.

10x the work for almost no results.

Over and over, explicitly so, as illiteracy and it’s projections does not have the capacity to stop what it is doing, until it reaches round and gets itself some minimal form of enlightenment ("is this warm soft clay I see before me?"*), so it can get past it’s dunderheadedness. Maybe. We can only hope, but the record constantly says otherwise.

In the meantime, reasonable, thinking people... either put up with them, ignore them, or leave the forum, or some combination thereof..

*("I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown.....") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn33-q4Ao

It is interesting to note that intelligence can be described by that which is abstract in both view, tendency and capacity, whereas those who don’t know science but project the idea of it’s use, do so in a frightfully linear manner.

Even an abacus or a small pile of rocks can be utilized calculate but that has squat to do with mind and abstract capacity. Science has no facts and no bibles - it has theory and potentials in projections. And that, in a nutshell, is the never ending ever changing advancement of humanity and the sciences. Not this junk we see in linear minded insanity - which is spectrally on the dense side. People play it safe when they reach limits in self, it is a human thing to do, based on the ape body and it's controls in place for survival. Dem rose colored glasses, they be in everythin'....