Deleted Threads by Admin??

Too bad this is devolving into a pissy thread.  Addicted to Outrage?

I started a thread last evening about how cultural changes occurring in Western nations might impact the audiophile world and how we post and perceive the posts of others.  Upon opening my laptop this morning the thread was removed by the moderators.  

Important note:  It was not a political thing.  No advocacy or criticism of left right or center of political spectrum.

@cleeds Thanks for responding.  Part of my frustration regarding the deletion of the thread results from the efforts I took in drafting the thread to not make it political.  

My audio enthusiast concern regards the cultural changes taking place where the West is moving from the Modern Era when reason, facts and truth was embraced to a Post Modern Culture where those very virtues are bemoaned and besmirched.  A culture where facts are fluid, feelings trump reason and I have my truth and you and everyone else can have there's.

What I was trying to get to is a conversation of how we as audiophiles regard our audio endeavors and talk about them.  This is a blog whose very existence is conversation about a shared interest. I'm certain you have read, as have I, the ongoing debate between those who believe that everything happening with our systems has a measurement to quantify it or the opposing view that not everything can have a specific fact or measurement associated with it. 

Well...if the culture we live within is moving away from reason, facts and truths, that is going to change the nature of our conversations here, no?

That is what I was hoping to converse with people here about.  

@cleeds If you are willing, I would appreciate hearing your perspective on what I've said here.

@celander   What are you talking about?  I was the first one to respond to your thread about threads being deleted after I just had a thread I initiated deleted.  That must mean I'm trying to hijack your thread about that very topic?

@onhwy61 @nonoise  Fair enough.  I think the original thread did contain what could be considered "politically charged references."  It is very hard to discuss culture devoid without political references.  I believe my first post in this thread avoided that.    

@cleeds Thanks for your thoughtful response above.  Some contemporary philosophers see the shift to Post Modernism happening as appeals to the primacy of feelings over reason and facts are indicators of such.  

Imagine being able to beam someone from the 1960's to 2018.  I think he/she would pass out from culture shock!

So @celander  what should we talk about?🧐

@djones51 I’m not talking about remembering and reminiscing. I mean take a person who’s life is in the 60’s and beam him to the here and now. Forget the shock over the obvious tech. developments...imagine their shock at living in a world where a great many people recognize the existence of more than two genders! JFK ( he was an idol to a very young me) would be a middle of the road Republican now.

In the alternative, imagine how folks from our time would react to the world to come 50 years hence.😯

@cleeds +100   I couldn't agree with you more!  People take the apolitical and strive to entangle it in politics. Ugh.  @isochronism 's post is a great example!   Also, as @cleeds mentioned, @celander did the typical us vs. them thing.  

@jaybe  Really? When?   Are you being an "agist"?

@roxy54   Unfortunately, the thread was removed before I had an opportunity to read your response. 

@clearthink   Is your moniker an oxymoron?  @roxy54  +1 on the novel use of the (.)

@celander  +1  Very poetically put!  Best thing I've read today.

@clearthink   What country would that be from which you opine?

@celander   Thanks for asking.  In all candor, I do think I included what could be regarded as political references in the original thread and that is why it was deleted.  Other posters here mentioned this and, in the interest of accepting constructive criticism, they were right.

Creative!  3X2.  Still all about the 3😬