"you know that you're out of your depth and are flailing around trying to score points"

Out of my depth at what exactly? Liking music? Challenging the shibboleths of a self perpetuating folk elite? Here's a story - many years ago an old friend with a huge music collection, 10s of thousands of recordings covering every aspect of C20th music going back to wax cylinders, found I had a modest collection of folk music. 'Nice one', he said, 'you do realise you won't find a bigger bunch of c***s than folkies, don't you?'

At the time I didn't know what he meant. I'm learning.