The Blog Exploitation...
The highly acclaimed blog-world offers outlets for so many internet users. You can search out like minded people, relieve stress by venting your issues in public, leave a potentially eternal message for posterity, and so much more. But with great ideas comes great exploitation.
Our blogs that we post so diligently offer a window into our own character. Even if you write so fantastically, to rival Tolkien, you expose even the more coveted of character traits...your signature of symbolic and metaphorical belief, which, while less tangible, allows another to view the inner core of your principles. There is no way to avoid unveiling your signature if you blog.
This is exactly where we become vulnerable to the commercial minded. They take these character traits to determine our market segment and then use the contact information, so innocently posted on our blogs, to send us advertisements for products and services that we are most likely to buy. We become mere elements of their marketing models and with inadvertant trust we fall prey to schemes and the designs of those wishing to profit from our naivety.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The trailblazers are never that clever; they are more bold than bright. These people show the more manipulative how it can be done--like a Fermi to an Oppenheimer.
I will show the comment that spawned this blog entry below:
Reading your blog and I figured you'd be interested in advancing your life a bit, call us at 1-206-339-5106. No tests, books or exams, easiest way to get a Bachelors, Masters, MBA, Doctorate or Ph.D in almost any field.Totally confidential, open 24 hours a day.Hope to hear from you soon!
Obviously a comment left by a web crawler that submitted a one-comment-fits-all message. Their was no reading of any entry. Sure I want to advance my education, but that is true of most everyone. The comment implies that I don't like tests, books or exams. How untrue. I went to college not for a diploma but to distill my mind, filter out those impurities that caused confusion and uncertainty. And if the web crawler made more of an effort on analysis, it would've discovered that.
But what is to stop a person from dumping a person's blog into a parsing program to identify the most probable interests of the blogger? Nothing. And soon we will get comments from "people" recommending a movie, books, websites or software, that would seem at first glance to be insightful, but is truly a marketing effort.
Is there anything wrong with good marketing? Why not expose a person to products, services and information that they would find appealing? Wouldn't it increase the very quality of our lives and lessen the searching we execute?
The problem comes from the inorganic nature of marketing in general. Life changes and adapts. There is an unpredictability to where an individual resides along the bell curve, and just because a person is in a position today by no means guarantees the same position tomorrow. But even those divergent tendencies can be measured, predicted and marginalized.
But the satisfaction of knowing that your life is our own deminishes. With greater marketing more and more of what we are exposed to is prescribed by the marketing plan. Our own fancies and caprices are predicted and indulged by a system of desire gratification.
Certainly a greater marketing plan would be devised whereas to be so subtle and so covert that the members of the segment would be left unaware about the meddling of the plan itself. Such a plan would never be made knownst to the public, but even if it were, no one would believe it for they would search their memory and only find their own will.
The greatest marketing effort would at most be detectable as a myriad of mysterious coincidences where the world seemed to be in concordance with one's will. In fact one could attribute such phenomena to divine will.
This means that the pursuit of any business is to mimic God. And like the God of yor, defectors would feel the wrath while those that prostrate themselves before it would be so fortunate as to experience it's grace. But as the circle turns a kinder and more loving God, would appeal to the masses. But one must remember that both the vengeful and compassionate engineers of experience are acting under the same motives. So the evil disguise themselves as the good, and since they are naturally so adaptive they attract more subjects than the genuine good.
This means that "good" marketing, in the moral sense of the word, would be evil by nature but good by neccessity. But remember that they are evil above all and revert to such a state if given the chance. But as marketing permiates every facet of life, they stack the deck in their favor and provide themselves more control over the subjects. They deliberately prevent people from attaining the ability to detect their workings and grant favor to those with influence in a resource of the business' desire.
People become baptised into the world of consumerism ever younger and are placed upon the tracks of market obedience so that they can become the unthinking cogs in the wheels of business. Unaware slaves and sheep to the slaughter. And who has the appetite for sheep but the shepherd and wolf alike.
This is why Christianity and even religion in general is so popular. It provides the theme of undoubted and steadfast bearing of the burden. Live without question of the higher power. Have faith in the mysterious ways of God and you inadvertantly play into the hands of the greatest machine. There is congruence in the goals of business and religion.
Spite is the unmitigated enemy of both business and religion. That is why it is deemed sinful. Business has a more secular way of detering such activity. They declare spite, in its various forms, illegal. Rules are to be obeyed not transgressed. We all are forced by both God and man to conform, but that is the least human response to such oppression.
One should adorn spite upon the very fabric of their character. Embrace unpredictability. Frolick with madness. Buy the red shirt even though you'd rather wear the blue. Write of what you believe in as much as you do about what you doubt.
God and business are eagerly pursuing you, and to honor them is to be elusive, and your legs are spite. Remember, both the hunters hold no respect for the lame prey.
BE SWIFT, BE SURE AND BE PURE!!!
Our blogs that we post so diligently offer a window into our own character. Even if you write so fantastically, to rival Tolkien, you expose even the more coveted of character traits...your signature of symbolic and metaphorical belief, which, while less tangible, allows another to view the inner core of your principles. There is no way to avoid unveiling your signature if you blog.
This is exactly where we become vulnerable to the commercial minded. They take these character traits to determine our market segment and then use the contact information, so innocently posted on our blogs, to send us advertisements for products and services that we are most likely to buy. We become mere elements of their marketing models and with inadvertant trust we fall prey to schemes and the designs of those wishing to profit from our naivety.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The trailblazers are never that clever; they are more bold than bright. These people show the more manipulative how it can be done--like a Fermi to an Oppenheimer.
I will show the comment that spawned this blog entry below:
Reading your blog and I figured you'd be interested in advancing your life a bit, call us at 1-206-339-5106. No tests, books or exams, easiest way to get a Bachelors, Masters, MBA, Doctorate or Ph.D in almost any field.Totally confidential, open 24 hours a day.Hope to hear from you soon!
Obviously a comment left by a web crawler that submitted a one-comment-fits-all message. Their was no reading of any entry. Sure I want to advance my education, but that is true of most everyone. The comment implies that I don't like tests, books or exams. How untrue. I went to college not for a diploma but to distill my mind, filter out those impurities that caused confusion and uncertainty. And if the web crawler made more of an effort on analysis, it would've discovered that.
But what is to stop a person from dumping a person's blog into a parsing program to identify the most probable interests of the blogger? Nothing. And soon we will get comments from "people" recommending a movie, books, websites or software, that would seem at first glance to be insightful, but is truly a marketing effort.
Is there anything wrong with good marketing? Why not expose a person to products, services and information that they would find appealing? Wouldn't it increase the very quality of our lives and lessen the searching we execute?
The problem comes from the inorganic nature of marketing in general. Life changes and adapts. There is an unpredictability to where an individual resides along the bell curve, and just because a person is in a position today by no means guarantees the same position tomorrow. But even those divergent tendencies can be measured, predicted and marginalized.
But the satisfaction of knowing that your life is our own deminishes. With greater marketing more and more of what we are exposed to is prescribed by the marketing plan. Our own fancies and caprices are predicted and indulged by a system of desire gratification.
Certainly a greater marketing plan would be devised whereas to be so subtle and so covert that the members of the segment would be left unaware about the meddling of the plan itself. Such a plan would never be made knownst to the public, but even if it were, no one would believe it for they would search their memory and only find their own will.
The greatest marketing effort would at most be detectable as a myriad of mysterious coincidences where the world seemed to be in concordance with one's will. In fact one could attribute such phenomena to divine will.
This means that the pursuit of any business is to mimic God. And like the God of yor, defectors would feel the wrath while those that prostrate themselves before it would be so fortunate as to experience it's grace. But as the circle turns a kinder and more loving God, would appeal to the masses. But one must remember that both the vengeful and compassionate engineers of experience are acting under the same motives. So the evil disguise themselves as the good, and since they are naturally so adaptive they attract more subjects than the genuine good.
This means that "good" marketing, in the moral sense of the word, would be evil by nature but good by neccessity. But remember that they are evil above all and revert to such a state if given the chance. But as marketing permiates every facet of life, they stack the deck in their favor and provide themselves more control over the subjects. They deliberately prevent people from attaining the ability to detect their workings and grant favor to those with influence in a resource of the business' desire.
People become baptised into the world of consumerism ever younger and are placed upon the tracks of market obedience so that they can become the unthinking cogs in the wheels of business. Unaware slaves and sheep to the slaughter. And who has the appetite for sheep but the shepherd and wolf alike.
This is why Christianity and even religion in general is so popular. It provides the theme of undoubted and steadfast bearing of the burden. Live without question of the higher power. Have faith in the mysterious ways of God and you inadvertantly play into the hands of the greatest machine. There is congruence in the goals of business and religion.
Spite is the unmitigated enemy of both business and religion. That is why it is deemed sinful. Business has a more secular way of detering such activity. They declare spite, in its various forms, illegal. Rules are to be obeyed not transgressed. We all are forced by both God and man to conform, but that is the least human response to such oppression.
One should adorn spite upon the very fabric of their character. Embrace unpredictability. Frolick with madness. Buy the red shirt even though you'd rather wear the blue. Write of what you believe in as much as you do about what you doubt.
God and business are eagerly pursuing you, and to honor them is to be elusive, and your legs are spite. Remember, both the hunters hold no respect for the lame prey.
BE SWIFT, BE SURE AND BE PURE!!!
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