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I use the word “groupies” loosely and under “audio groupies” I recognize a quite large pack of the abhorred by me audio individuals. The Audio Groupies are the people who made own awareness subordinated to some kind of audio initiative, concept, brand, company, product, group pf interest or most frequently a marketing slogan (or something that will call “X-Subject” in this post). As a result their audio interests shifted from “doing audio” into burning efforts to sustain own attachment to the group of the similar to themselves and promotion/cultivating the stupid anti-meritocracy within the circles of own influence.

The Audio Groupies hardly have any connection with reasoning or rational regarding the subjects of their admiration – the X-Subjects. Initially they did assess the X-Subject or at least they were reading the bumper-stickers on the colorful marketing wrappers of those X-Subjects, eventually they got infatuated with the “X-Subject”. However, there is more to it…. The Audio Groupies are too primitive species (at least in terms of this audio intellect) to be able to embrace benefits of a given “X-Subject” and pressure of own “super tasks” (look for Stanislavsky’s System). For the simplistic Audio Groupies the “X-Subject” itself does not recognized as a set of usable benefits but instead is become a mark of encapsulated awe, similar to the prehistoric people who worship cattle’s bowel movement for it’s “mysterious” fertilizative duty. So, the Audio Groupies instead of the USE the fertilizers to grow better crop begin  to cover themselves into cow’s excrements, dancing their ritual audio-salsa, sacrifice chickens, and declare as “heretic” anyone who would look at their Shamanism laughingly.... As the result, for Audio Groupies the interaction with any X-Subject becomes not the USE of the X-Subject but practicing inquisition to protect the X-Subject.

The biggest problem with the Audio Groupies is that they do not understand that any success of any audio “X-Subjects” belong of END USER but not belong an industry solution providers. Any technology or notion in the hands of barbarian produce barbarian results and in contrary: in order to get a higher level of results any “X-Subject” should be properly employed by end users and the results should be properly understood by user’s own capacity. The Audio Groupies are not creative, are not inclined to originality, not inventive or have power to create. They rather are individuals bound in servitude, subordinance and following. Anything, that question their subject of admiration – the X-Subject - they accept as a personal trespassing of their little territory and hey immediately begin to built up resistance. However, the Audio Groupies are not really smart people, have no well-developed cogent understanding of own audio actions and seldom able to shelter intelligently own views. So, instead of reaffirming own inspections they encircle themselves with who sheep that same losers and dilute own fears in a sophistic mass-enthusiasm. Alexander Pope was right when he said that fools admire, but men of sense approve. The Audio Groupies in their nature are fools and they do what all fools always do the best in order to feel better about themselves – they cluster into herds.

Therefore, in audio today we have many groups of the “special interests” that violently protect own status – I call them the “Audio Groupies”. It is hardly possible to deal with those people as the have no individual consciousness. Instead of individual awareness then have a slavish desire to protect own membership in the Group and protect the group’s interest form any possible doubts. It is imposable to find Sound in context of any Group of Interest or in context of any individual Audio Groupie. Sound and the interest to Sound are well hidden with the Group’s self-serving Interests and Sound is rather a commodity of the Groupies, instead of being the purpose of the participants’ interests.

So, I personally feel that any Groupies only by the fact of being subordinates of the “groupism” are disqualified from being a subject of any serious Audio attention. I treat them like I would treat an experimental medical mouse. You can purposelessly play with the run for a while before you inject it with some kind of deadly illness and then put it under microscope to die. The Audio Groupies do not demonstrate any inventive or self-sufficient thinking and if you understand the given group agenda (their reliance upon the X-Subject) or the given Groupies’ fears then know not only any single thought they are able to express but also each single sound you hear from the Groupies’ audio installations

There are a quite a number of the Audio Groupies among the mentioned above Shepherded type. Their X-Subjects are primary companies and products, some of them end user and some of the pre-nursed industry players. There is also a large army of DIY Groupies that are the class on their own….

As far as I concern all of them absolutely equally boring and have as much own value of sonic interests as that experimental lab rat… You can study the Pavlovian reflex with that parasite but too bad animal to keep it even as a pet….

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