This hobby is for hedonists, not scientists

In terms of bagels, I am anti-everything bagels. Not because they are bad, per se but because they displaced sesame seed.  

Funny how my little post generated so much engagement.  I want to elaborate just a little.

If you are spending money for a luxury or cultural experience you do so out of emotional need to do so.  Even if for you it’s an engineering/precision investment, you WANT or NEED to spend that money.  That’s very emotional.  Even purely scientific decisions need emotions to be able to function. 

My position, really, is that we are spending money on fulfilling desire, though we may phrase it in different ways.  Without passion, our money stays in our pockets. 

Point is, we should be spending money to please our senses.  Period.  OUR senses, not yours, not the reviewers.  

I of course don't mean a scientist or engineer can't be a well rounded individual who delites in food, travel, music or literature.  What I mean is, we aren't buying a microscope to determine the composition of a bacterium.  We are spending money to make ourselves happy. 

And here is where my own pleasure and passion diverges from many of my fellow a'goners.  Recognizing I am buying to make myself happy I have given up on building a stereo which performs as a perfectly calibrated instrument..  Neutrality and the "recording engineer's intentions" be damned.  I don't care.  

The music, and the system I play it through is for me to enjoy.   I'm not here to learn about recording techniques or teach microphone mechanics.  I'm here to have a positive sensual/somatic experience and connect through time through music.   That's my goal.   I don't try to disguise it as some sort of perfectly neutral window, because that's never going to be true.  

It can be argued that everything we spend money on is fulfilling a desire. Even the act of working to obtain money to fulfill a desire is fulfilling a desire.

@thecarpathian ”….everything we spend money on is fulfilling a desire”

Your theory works for me 👍

Last thing in the “l hate bagels” bagel saga. I must admit that with living in the UK l have never experienced the real thing, bagel wise. So on reflection, perhaps l am being a trifle unfair to all those honest bagels out there, sitting on shelves awaiting to be “fulfilling a desire” in the USA.

The jury is still out….. l rest my bagel.

@newton_john - I think this thread is quite amusing, as apparently do others, even though you do not. Fair enough. 

As for 'explanation', that's not how humor works, for me anyway. You find something amusing or you don't. 100% subjective.