"Man In The Doorway"
What drives the common woodworker?

I drives a Buick.


A deeply suppressed desire to please
the long deceased father who never gave him love as a child?

Nah, he was an acoholic and became a real PITA so we left him.


The need
to be seen as an alpha male by everyone else around him?

Everyone would be my wife. Kids are on their own. Neighbors don't give a
crap.


The
insecurities of being a non-intellectual blue-collar common man with
calluses on his hands and feet?

I'm in management but I do have a callus on my foot. I make it a point to
walk around the plant a couple of times a day so I don't get them on my ass
from the comfy chair in my office.


Why do hobbyist woodworkers feel the need to own the same caliber tools
as the professionals? Is there really anything wrong with Craftsman or
Black and Decker products? Probably not.

I've owned both. Evidently you haven't yet or you'd know the answer.


Insecurity motivates too many
woodworkers to waste hard earned cash on tools they have absolutely no
use for.

Every tool I own has been used At least once anyway.


Why do they feel such a need to show off, when nobody really
cares what they own? .... when nobody really cares about their
projects? ....

That's how we get wood


when anyone could go out and buy the same desk, futon,
or humidor for half of what is costs to build one?
Insecurity!

Half? Maybe even a quarter. It isn't about money. IMO, it is more about
security that insecurity. If you don' thave confidence in your abilities
you won't ever start a project, let alone finish one that looks far superior
that the generl cheap furniture foisted off ont he public today.

Hope yo had fun, but you should keep reading about physology as yo haven't
quite mastered it yet. Try night school and take a class.