Hi, Craig
I think if you read a variety of posts by these different forum identities, it will be clear that they are distinctly different people. OTH, it seems strange that you can’t imagine your posts might stir up more than one person.
There is a very famous American short story by the 19th century writer Stephen Crane called The Blue Hotel. It’s about a stranger that comes to town in a midwestern Nebraska cowtown back in the wild west. The stranger, being a Swede in the American West, has increasing problems as the day passes fitting in with the locals. I had to read the short story along with a lot of others in a college humanities class. But whenever I’ve stumbled into a difficult social situation, I’ve thought of that short story and what it says about the group vs. the individual and how atavistically harsh a group can be to a stranger in their midst when there are increasing misunderstandings.
Here’s a plot summary and analysis of The Blue Hotel:
And since the story was published in 1899, it’s entered the public domain and is available to read in its entirety on the Internet, here from Washington State University:
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/blue.htm
You’ve posted some very interesting and useful information in the past. Why not chill out and not insist on duking it out with anyone? Don’t mean to suggest that you’re the Swede in the Hearing Tracker cowtown. It’s just a famous literary example of things flying out of control when someone stirs up a group by being very different and contentious for whatever reasons and generating a positive feedback loop, so to speak. I recommend the story to anyone who hasn’t read it. It made a lifelong impression on me.