Quote:
Originally Posted by Rasczak  There just seems something wrong with that. But every community has them. I'm a pipe smoker. Among pipe smokers there is a contingent that looks down their noses at certain types of tobacco blends, lower end pipes, they pass themselves off as purists and try to fidget their way up some sort of imaginary pecking order. Of course, none of them would openly admit it, and they do it a sort of non-overt way. It's a weird aspect of human psychology that intriques me because you see it everywhere. |
Yeah. Here's an off-the-cuff theory. We all want to be "special." So we do something that's unusual. Pipe-smoking or linux or whatever. But then if we feel like too many other people are enjoying our hobby, then we get kinda territorial. We start saying that they aren't doing it right. They're not the "real" hobbyists. It's some kind of misguided attempt to show that we are not just run-of-the-mill, that we are somehow unique and special. It comes of defining ourselves by means of an activity, rather than internally.