svart-hvitt
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Please tell me which book documents "the re-mixing of Sgt. Peppers: the digital version has been heavily clipped on the whim of the so-called engineer in charge of the project, while the vinyl version has not. Because everyone in the business now thinks that vinyl sounds better than digital, so all the connoisseurs will be listening to vinyl, and all the troglodytes who only notice 'loudness' will be listening to digital." And the deliberate killing of TIDAL through the record companies creation of the vinyl revival. I'd love to read that book. The comedy would be off the map.
In N o r w a y, we have long-lasting experience with trolls so we know one when we see one.
You use the fact that there is, naturally, no book on Sgt Pepper’s recent remaster and no book on Tidal as evidence that profit growth and marketing are not relevant to understand the audio industry. Profit making and marketing are well-documented in the literature and hence there is no conspiracy to use that general, universal insight in specific cases like Sgt Pepper and Tidal. BTW, I used the words general/universal and specific deliberately.
You argumentation strategy was described in Ludvig Holberg’s Erasmus Montanus 300 years ago. From Wikipedia:
«Rasmus Berg, a Danish farmer's son, has been given a costly education in Copenhagen. When he returns, he speaks Latin to his parents, and Latinises his name as Erasmus Montanus. He wants to "dispute", and goes on to "prove" a number of absurdities, such as relying on argument from ignorance to prove that his mother is a rock. He is contrasted to his brother Jacob who is only interested in knowledge which is of practical application.
His persistent arguing gets him into trouble with the parents of his fiancée Lisbet, who refuses the marriage until he stops claiming that the Earth is round. His fiancée begs him to retract his statements that the Earth revolves around the sun, but he refuses. After a village plot tricks him to enlist for military service and leave the city, he reconsiders and makes the retractions, allowing him to marry Lisbet».
Berg, Rasmus’ family name, means «mountain» in the Scandinavian languages. To me, Erasmus Montanus was a forerunner of today’s trolling on the internet.
So I always think about Erasmus Montanus when I encounter certain argumentation strategies.
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