WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR?

+1 @unreceivedogma 

Me too. See my systems.

But I will put my 38-67 year old gear up against anything on the market today and while it may not be the best according to some, it will righteously acquit itself. 

“…You're being silly because it's essentially impossible for any of us to change our economic system.”

Totally wrong. Systems are changed all the time, either at the ballot box, through grassroots organizing with thousands of others, through catastrophe, like the Great Depression, or through revolution,…you know, like that Thing that we celebrate every July 4. 

@mahgister

organize. The easy stuff is shareholder resolutions, strikes, boycotts. The hard part is revolution, which won’t happen for the foreseeable future because the working classes in the U.S. seem more inclined towards fascism at the moment and the Democratic Party are not getting them back anytime soon because it thinks there is no problem that can’t be solved by throwing money at it. I see that what is more likely is another Jan 6 insurrection that succeeds.

This is supposed to be an audio forum 😬 so hey I’m chillin 😎 after this 😆!

unreceivedogma

Systems are changed all the time, either at the ballot box, through grassroots organizing with thousands of others, through catastrophe ...

No, they're not. Effecting real change in systems is rare. Yes, it happens, but incremental change is much more common.

... or through revolution,…you know, like that Thing that we celebrate every July 4.

Dreamers like you tried that kind of change on Jan. 6. We saw how that worked out.

@cleeds

Of the 3,000 books in my library, I have several shelves devoted to history books that unequivocally dispute your assertions about the frequency of change.

As for your other comment about 1/6, you clearly did not cognitively grasp what I said.

As for dreaming, I fought a case to the U.S. Supreme Court and got Scalia to write an 8-1 opinion in my favor. I’m likely the only dialectical materialist to get Scalia to agree with him…twice! Can’t do that without first, dreaming, second, designing, third planning, fourth executing like hell.

I changed constitutional law by getting The Supremes to overthrow 12 cases that came before me that went the other way

OK, outa here before the moderator pulls down what is otherwise a normal thread.