After heavily throwing myself into marketing the last 15 months, it's near impossible to not see everything as a marketing scheme. Politics, religion, nationalism, sports teams, latest health trends. All of it is just funneling others into a desired outcome - whether nefarious or not, doesnt matter. But thats quite literally what it is
Religion being the biggest one but there's 0 chance I'd ever have this conversation online - and I am not an atheist in the slightest
Most of it is just a big scam - which btw, idgaf what you say, is what 99% of marketing is and always has been. The offer doesn't really even matter whether its BH or not, its moreso the extravagant claims that makes marketing a scam
And the biggest reason why marketers must make these claims is bc all it takes is a very small % of bad actors (affiliates) to make these bold claims that 180 the basic consumer's belief on the subject that the most vanilla, WH claims/marketing fly right under the radar and ends up not converting bc the consumer is sold on an easier, faster, cheaper outcome.
End of the day, it's not about what results your product brings...
It's about what you can make the consumer believe their result will be from your product
I know there are great products, there always will be, and that's one of the biggest moats.
But everything in life is just a big sham, and it's all about who can get away with the biggest lie without getting punished for it...
And I'm starting to believe it's always been like that, it's just far more apparent now (thanks for opening my eyes covid)
I love marketing, always will. It changed my life and will continue to do so. Just an observation. Maybe I'll change my mind on it later but this is what I believe most of life runs on - nefarious marketing which is just basic marketing
P.S. I'm not even remotely talking about BH offers like reversing cancer or curing diabetes which are clearly just abusing the old, sick, and retarded
P.P.S. 90% of people are all retarded... not even a joke, probably the most sobering thing I've gotten out of these 15 months. Hard to walk around other people knowing what they believe and respond to
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I'd say one of the most indicative traits of a normie is the ignorance of the darker half of most greats
Listen to brute talk about this briefly at length in his spaces "addictions & obsession"
The normie is busy counting his cups of coffee, making his bed every morning, making sure not to stray to far off the median curve because that's what you're supposed to do right? Meanwhile all the greats just follow spirit and lean into their addictions, quirks, idosyncranicities, etc. Newton didn't write a million words on alchemy because he had a balanced morning routine. He wrote them because something in him wouldn't let him stop. Tesla didn't fall in love with a pigeon because he was well-adjusted. He fell in love with a pigeon because the same wiring that let him see rotating magnetic fields in his mind also made him... fall in love with a pigeon.
Very hard pill to swallow that every person who moves shit forward is also completely unhinged in some department.
The self improover is optimizing for a life that looks good on paper
-Martin Luther King was cheating 24/7
-Mozart wrote letters to friends begging for money because he spent every single penny
-Newton spent 30 YEARS of his life writing 1 million words on bs alchemy.
-Tesla wanted to BANG a pigeon
-โโSteve Jobs delayed 9 MONTHS of medical treatment of pancreatic cancer for a carrot juice diet
-Ford purchased the newspaper The Dearborn Independent and posted a 91-week campaign of: "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem".
Etc
-Martin Luther King was cheating 24/7
-Mozart wrote letters to friends begging for money because he spent every single penny
-Newton spent 30 YEARS of his life writing 1 million words on bs alchemy.
-Tesla wanted to BANG a pigeon
-โโSteve Jobs delayed 9 MONTHS of medical treatment of pancreatic cancer for a carrot juice diet
-Ford purchased the newspaper The Dearborn Independent and posted a 91-week campaign of: "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem".
Etc
Every single rumor, thing did behind my back, lie, or anything i needed to know...
...has ALWAYS trickled through the grapevine
and made its way back to me
You nevr need to go searching for it - you don't even need to suspect something's off
Just align yourself with the truth in your own life and everything will be revealed in due time when and if it's meant to be revealed