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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
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Joined on 05-28-2004
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Would you also say that the study and enjoyment of music via electro-mechanical means is not only personal, but that nothing about it can be shared? This idea seems self-negating to me, like an oxymoron.
Paul, this is an excellent question, and it is the one that I have been asking myself many, many times during the last year. Let me run my mouth about it.
Back in 2025, I became, from being a man number three for many years, a man number four. If you read further, you will understand what I mean. I cannot go into the details and specific explanations here for reasons not related to audio. I recorded a video, I think, three or four times, with very detailed explanations, but I decided not to post it. The reason for this is kind of ridiculous. Back on October 6 last year, because of multiple reasons, my wife turned into a maniac psycho, highly unethical, with a single purpose of taking my kids from me. I do not know if she does it, but I know that if she does monitor my site, then anything even remotely usable for her purpose is going to be used against me in court. This is how she operates, but it is what it is. So I need to be very, very watchful about what I post in the public domain. I would not be surprised if I have a private investigator who is monitoring my life. I know it sounds ridiculous, but over the last few months I have been a direct recipient of this “ridiculous,” and so far many ridiculous things have been used against me in court, so I am trying not to take my chances. It is so ridiculous that I took measures to preserve the continuation of my truth in case “something” happens to me. As you understand, it is quite far away from the type of coupling capacitors to be used between the stages.
Without going to jail answering your question, let me answer you with a metaphor, and you will be able to fill in the blank.
There is an old Russian saying also, though I do not insist that it is Russian in origin. A man walks in a field and sees four men building a brick wall of identical size and doing absolutely identical things. He asks the first man, “What are you doing?” The man replies, “I am laying bricks.” Then he asks the second man what he is doing. The second man says, “I am laying bricks in order to make money and feed my family.” Then he asks the third man what he is doing. The third man replies, “I am building a very sophisticated brick pattern, using very unique bricks, joints, and techniques.” Then he asks man number four what he is doing. The man replies, “I am building a castle.” The man asks why he does not use the advanced techniques that man number three uses. And man number four replies that how he lays his bricks is completely irrelevant because he is building the castle.
Back in 2025, I became very much not person number three anymore. Not because I feel that man number three is wrong; I just completely lost interest in being man number three myself.
Now answering your question directly: can man number three and man number four share experience and learn from each other? Yes and no. Let’s look at the dynamics of this sharing. Man number three has absolutely nothing to learn from man number four among what is important for man number four. He can observe the techniques that man number four uses and even copy them. However, man number three has no context of how and why man number four utilizes his skills to lay the bricks. He can, for instance, see that man number four adds the urine of an adolescent camel to his cement mix, and he can replicate it. But he has no idea what the purpose of this application is. Then let’s look at man number four. He might or might not need to learn some techniques from man number three, but most likely he will have the interest of an observer, not the interest of an imitator. The reason is that when a person reaches level number four, he stops recognizing external influence as guidance. At this level, a man usually reaches the second stage of metacognition, and the person begins to invent his own brick-laying techniques, which have direct alignment with his vision of his castle. From the outside, all four men do absolutely the same things, but internally, man number four operates in a completely different domain of reality and practice.
Back in June or July last year, when Jungian individuation hit me with tremendous force, everything started. As part of individuation, a person completely reconciles and reviews all his past experience and decides what needs to be brought into a new life, where unconscious shadows become conscious and well-expressed sentiments. I do not particularly feel that many of the things I did in the past in audio were bad or wrong. However, I feel that many of my interests, objectives, and methods from the past belong to man number three, in whom I have no interest nowadays.
This is not a verdict; this is an explanation. In my life today, there are very few things that I cannot explain to myself. Welcome to the world of an individuated empath. This is a form of existence that is not well known and is usually grossly misunderstood. One way or another, with the exception of this craziness around my wife and the kids, I am experiencing the best period of my life. Not to mention that the decisions and actions I made in 2025 with my audio installation are absolutely the best I have ever made, and they cannot be explained to people who operate out there at the level of the third brickman.
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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