The Musical Moron - rise of the Non Musician

Hi Grantman, exactly. 

In the interim, we've got a prime example on this thread of someone with no knowledge of how to play an instrument telling someone who patently has that they don't know what they're on about. 

It's endemic on the internet - on every "music" forum you go on, there will be some idiot who decides that, since he's listened to a lot of music, he knows better than you do. Or can strum a few chords, hence "genius, look at me."

I've now been playing a variety of musical instruments since 1976. Guess what ? I'm not a genius. I have a long way to go, nor do I know everything. But I know how much I do know, unlike a large number of "musicians" out there. 

The problem used to be that - pre internet, people could be privately stupid and didn't tend to dare ganging up on people with knowledge. You rarely got the Wandering Nutcase who would decide that he somehow knew everything.

Now, Club Idiot has formed, large numbers of people can embrace the Stupidocracy and decide that their collective opinion is worth something.

Anyone with knowledge is perversely seen as "elitist". I don't know about you, but if I had to have a kidney removed, I'd rather have an "elite" surgeon do it than someone off the top deck of a bus. 

This is why we get a mass of conspiracy theorists, chem trailers, anti-vaxxers and flat Earthers- they can all stupid together and there's strength in numbers (but still no value in their idiotic arguments.) So someone on a music forum can quite happily tell you how "easy bass is to play" and "only peole who can't play guitar play bass" with utterly no idea of what they're on about, having never picked one up.

They're just repeating idiotic mantras which they've heard and fit in with their (badly thought out) opinions. Heaven forfend that reality should not actually match their own view of themselves. 

Davesax1965 wrote: Hi Grantman, exactly.  In the interim, we've got a prime example on this thread of someone with no knowledge of how to play an instrument telling someone who patently has that they don't know what they're on about.  It's endemic on the internet - on every "music" forum you go on, there will be some idiot who decides that, since he's listened to a lot of music, he knows better than you do. Or can strum a few chords, hence "genius, look at me." I've now been playing a variety of musical instruments since 1976. Guess what ? I'm not a genius. I have a long way to go, nor do I know everything. But I know how much I do know, unlike a large number of "musicians" out there.  The problem used to be that - pre internet, people could be privately stupid and didn't tend to dare ganging up on people with knowledge. You rarely got the Wandering Nutcase who would decide that he somehow knew everything. Now, Club Idiot has formed, large numbers of people can embrace the Stupidocracy and decide that their collective opinion is worth something. Anyone with knowledge is perversely seen as "elitist". I don't know about you, but if I had to have a kidney removed, I'd rather have an "elite" surgeon do it than someone off the top deck of a bus.  This is why we get a mass of conspiracy theorists, chem trailers, anti-vaxxers and flat Earthers- they can all stupid together and there's strength in numbers (but still no value in their idiotic arguments.) So someone on a music forum can quite happily tell you how "easy bass is to play" and "only peole who can't play guitar play bass" with utterly no idea of what they're on about, having never picked one up. They're just repeating idiotic mantras which they've heard and fit in with their (badly thought out) opinions. Heaven forfend that reality should not actually match their own view of themselves.

Davesax1965 wrote: This is why we get a mass of conspiracy theorists, chem trailers, anti-vaxxers and flat Earthers- they can all stupid together and there's strength in numbers (but still no value in their idiotic arguments.)

And I do apologise to Mosh if my *knowledge* doesn't tally with his *opinion*.

Which is what the thread is actually about. 

I have tip-toed across the jack of glove compartment strikes only to find that online tools are donated tools. It's a sensible pencil that a brain can cloud upon like the dinosaurs of the 1960s. We can trek rope like a Shatner combining gossip with royal instinct. I'm quite happy with not emanating the curriculum you foresee, nor am I trying to invade your nest with glue guns. Quibbling about signals is a sure sign that your notes are upside down, but what if our calendar packs are pinched?

^^ so many precious keystrokes wasted just eating into valuable self gratification time