Beware the Sharks of the Net!

Someone posted stuff on Net Marketing Forum that put me into a great 'ranting' mood...

[quote]Actually, you'll have more time and money to buy traffic, upgrade in exchanges and gain more JV partners if you have your own product/service.[/quote]

I find that very unconvincing. We get told all kinds of garbage on and on and on. Buy a suit. Cut your hair. Wear XYZ cologne. Have a phone. Have an email address. Have a website. On and on and on. In reality the reason 'they' want to know what your product or service is is so they can provide it themselves so as to cut you out of the picture. The legends of there being money on the net seem to be untrue, in reality the people on the web are simply preying upon people who have jobs in the brick and mortar world. There is no money online, just a few 'payment processors' that are interfaces to offline money.

I had a product and service: internet connectivity. I knew at the time that it was only a limited time opportunity because I knew the phone and cable companies would try to take it over, followed by the wireless and satellite companies. I proposed that by the time that limited time opportunity was over the place to be would be content. That is, instead of selling the on-ramp to the information highway be the reason people wanted to get on that highway in the first place. Because the next move would probably be for the people who had the content to bypass the people who offer the connectivity. Afterall, most people don't buy a phone or cable or wireless for its own sake, they buy it because they imagine it will provide them with content that they want or need.

I gave up having a phone because phone became a gross waste of time. Most people do not seem to want to pay by the minute or hour or whatever for telephone consulting/support/conversation. If someone wants to be able to reach me (rather than an answering machine or voicemail or neighbor or third party retailer/dealer/intermediary) by phone I'd want them to pay me a whole lot more than just what a phone costs.

I am getting toward the same thing with internet connection. The quality of people on the net has gone down so much over the last ten years or so that it is getting to the point where it might be time to abandon the internet as just another waste of time and money. Why? Because the content has been steadily degrading and being destroyed. Much of the good content that was available ten years ago has been hidden, concealed, destroyed, or driven off of the net.

If you do in fact have a product or service you might be much better off NOT telling anyone on the net what it is, because they will not buy it, they will clone it. They do not need or want you, all they need or want is your concept of what constitutes a product or service and, of course, any 'money' you might happen to have access to. Their objective is to eliminate you while appropriating anything of value that you cause them to become aware of the existence of.

That might be why so many do not appear to have a product or service. They are defending themselves by not publishing the nature of their livelihood.

If you look closely at the so-called products or services most who do have 'their own' are offering, you will, at least if you are not as ignorant as most newbies to the net seem to be these days, likely notice those products and services are inferior imitations of better, maybe even 'classic', products and services the existence of which they attempt to conceal from you in order to try to convince you to buy their inferior imitation.

They are deliberately and systematically destroying people's minds and conditioning people to want to be ignorant. There is less and less point in writing any truly informative material because there is less and less chance that there will be anyone left in the world who is capable of understanding it due to the deliberate process of depriving people of the background necessary to understand anything. The objective seems to be to develop a population of consumers who are incapable of understanding anything other than "insert another coin for another two minutes". People who know less and less about more and more until they know nothing about anything. It actually even seems as if part of the objective might be to make reading and writing obsolete. The slave castes will be illiterate again ('like they were always meant to be in the first place' maybe?) and might only have very small vocabularies, if any, even in sound. Possibly only heard sound not spoken sound, as in maybe muting them might also be planned, "afterall we do not need them to be making noises, we only need them to be hearing the noises that we make".

Now that others among my peoples are on the net there is less and less need for me to be on the net. Basically it comes back to the classic observation 'there is one in every crowd'. Nowadays some crowds have more than one, but one is usually enough. Crowds that try to insist that more than one of us join them seem usually to be crowds that are not in fact truly interested in the information that we are capable of providing or offering. They want to know about more of us so that they can attempt to destroy us or exploit us, not because they actually have any valid need to have any more than one of us be their contact-person through whom to obtain what we can provide.

To put more of us onto the net than are actually necessary for whatever purpose we deployed people onto the net to accomplish would be a waste of good troops who might well be far better deployed elsewhere; or it might simply waste more money than need be wasted, since afterall each person that we deploy onto the net costs us connectivity/bandwidth fees or the time and effort required to provide and maintain our own wires or wirelesses.

I think I might actually be starting to look foward to admitting that I have in fact been relieved of the onerous duty of operating a net access terminal so that I can finally leave that to someone else and get back to something more important. Like maybe helping the food banks to increase their farm holdings so they can produce more food thus feed more people thus freeing more people from the tyranny of the money-mongers? Hmm, interesting idea...

-MarkM-

Another lead toward Haligonians?

Ooooooooooooo, looks like maybe someone at TranQuilEye might have some Haligonian connections! Seems to have heard a thing or two about a street or few of Halifax at least... :)

-MarkM