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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Battling stupid Horn Criticism as a concept

Post Subject: Knowledge about hors vs. knowledge about horns.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/5/2009

I do not completely agree with you. You see, I do not feel that stressing of “physics and geometry“or “scientific concepts” leads to anywhere. In fact I generally do not feel that knowledge itself worth a lot. I value much more a presence of a common sense and a proper pattern to develop necessary knowledge if there is a need for them. That is why when I sometimes do interviews of personal to hire for my clients I hardly ever ask questions that require knowledge but I rather tend to ask the questions that they are absolutely do not know and that have no firm single answer but rather have zillion answers “depends”. What important to me is not the fact the person would find or guess the answers/s among the baggage of own knowledge but to see what kind mental mechanism the person would use to approach the answer. I usually ask to interviewee to talk for a few minutes about what the person thinks about the answer might be and observing the level of the candidate’s considerations it is immediately obviously to me at whish level the person might engage the tasks.

The very same is with horns. There are very many people with tone of what they feel “knowledge” is about horns (or about audio) but in reality their application of that knowledge worth shit. The truth is that the horns are so superbly simplistic to understand and so simplistic to use that a word “knowledge” is hardly ever applicable to them – juts do not do stupid things and you do not need any “knowledge”.

Do you know what the most common question I ask in emails? The Morons read some my positions at my site and then send me emails asking “How do I know?” I always wonder what the heck then would like to hear as the answer. They are inapt to recognize my (or even their own) motivation, rational and resonating but they want an assurance of orientation, like I am selling them a car or something like this… I use to reply Larry Flint’s celebrated phrase “A Samurai told me” but lately I just send them to go fuck themselves… I do not like them interrupt me from writing my book “How to make friends 101”…

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