Termyn8or
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This is it. It i s five in the morning and I have been up all night and I think I can now express this properly.
Manipulation comes in many forms. If you are an advanced marketing graduate you probably already know what I'm going to say. But that is no reason for me to stop.
Let's say you start a company, the Crest toothpaste company. I can be objective because I do not use toothpaste. But say I am charged with the task of getting you to buy our product rather than that of our competitor. How do I do that ? Well first I must analyse what information is generally available and what is not. In other words, when you lie, only lie about things which can't be disproven. While any fallacy can be disproven, most people have not the means to find out, and what's more many will not bother. Now back in the old days you had to pay the dentist. Every filling or procedure cost you money directly from your pocket. So obviously since that is where the money is I go for that. Simple reasoning really, not beyond a five year old IMO.
So I will claim that Crest toothpaste will help prevent cavities and subsequent inevitable dentist bills. It's a win win. Let's say I bought a refrigerator company and decided to offer the longest warraty possible, but only on the sealed system. The compressor etc. which does the actual work to make the cabinet cold and therefore a suitable place to store your food, which is among the most valuable things you "own". Anyone who has had a compressor fail in July knows what I mean. For a hundred dollar compressor you can lose many times that much easily. But my warranty only covers the sealed system.
A bit later a design flaw is found and the sealed system is fine, but due to a backlash of moisture the air flow in the cabinet is impeded, and the result is that the thing does not work properly. It does not keep your food cold and at the humidity range that it should and you lose money replacing the food. My guy comes out and gives you a $500 estimate to fix it but you thought it was covered by the warranty. I am completely indemnified but you need a new fridge. And even if you pay the $500 to fix the problem, there is no modification or upgrade and it will happen again. I am talking about Maytag here, not some schwantz wanker in bumfuct Yugoslavia somewhere.
I warned you that this is only the beginning.
Now this is the sensitive part. Here is a fact. This country was founded by and is inhabited largely by separatists. Whatever grounds will serve, whether they be racial, religious or sexual orientational. (new word ?) It really doesn't matter. Time has proven that we all can get along, but the fact is that they threw us all together too quickly, without time to adapt. That's why there was a race war right here in Cleveland, that's why there were race riots. That's why they win and we lose, because you don't really have to divide and conquer, all you have to do is divide. The divided are already conquered, it's just matter of choosing their "leader" who is nothing but a figurehead at best, and at worst a traitor to his country. It happens all the time, and this thing has been going on for five thousand years.
I am not going to rail about the Jews nor even the Zionists, as I have found they have no copyright on cunning, no patent on pluralism, nor anything else. There are some involved in this manipulation, and if the percentasge is greater among them it is because more of them have enough damn intellect to handle it. I share that trait, and Momma didn't raise any fools. But Jews in no way have a monoply on this, no matter what anyone thinks.
But the fact remains that some people know how to manipulate, and I consider myself among them. The other day at work the boss was bitching about our road Man. The problem was our fault, but what he should've done was to STFU and say "We'll have to take it in and let you know". Instead he admitted fault on the spot and that is not within his pervue, that is determined by me. The boss and I understand one another and it is a quite simple object just to keep one's mouth shut. The guy who did it had never been on the other side of the big desk. The boss, in discussing this with me said "Let him try to make payroll".
So you see many of us are guilty of some form of manipulation, whether by exaggertion, outright lies or even purposeful omission of pertinent facts. Like I said, this problem was indeed our fault (not mine), but it is not his place to say so. The truth doesn't really matter, it is what the customer percieves. In the end we will have wound up taking care of the problem for free, so the actual cost may be minimal to the company, but the fact remains that it was not his job to say so. In basic marketing you'll learn that handling complaints are the most important aspect of customer relations. I think, along with those very advanced in the field belive that it is better to have problems, and resolve them to the customer's satisfaction as it proves certain things to them. At least they think so. It is not our intent that matters, that intent is to simply make as much money as we can. It's called business. But to maintain that you need good customer relations, and fully and completely resolved problem go farther actually in proving that point than any advertising you could ever do.
To give an example of a folly, take one of those cheapo pizza places. Hot and ready when you walk in, 1,300 locations within a mile, five bucks for the pizza, ads on the TV every five minutes. We have three such competitors in the area. All the same, keep the pizzas moving out the door, that is how they make money. Therefore the most logical path is to get as many pizzas moving out the door as possible. However when people actually try to eat the pizzas they find that it's not even worth the five bucks and they would be better off eating the box.
However that is a situation known as customer turnover, and is another major field of study when it comes to marketing. As long as the budget persists you just keep advertising until the market is washed out. Then you cut back, get down to your core stores and lay off a bunch of people to whom you promised all kinds of retirement and benefits to make them do their best for you.
I will say it again just for the record YOU ARE NOT PLAYING WITH FUCKING KIDS HERE !. These people go to special schools to learn this shit and they don't forget much.
Let's go back into the racial thing, because I think that has been well explained. Explain to me the existence of a country known as Czeckoslovakia. The Czecks and Slovaks hated each other with a passion, borne of decades of strife between the two sides. Both are peaceful peoples if left alone. But they simply have too much history. So the exhalted elected most [virulent] benevolent, most well educated leaders of the world decided that these two peoples had to share a country. Iraq was created pretty much the same way and look what happened to them.
It is so simple to see manipulation, and not that hard to emulate. But that doesn't cut it because every situation is different. You have to understand the goals of the "mark". Yes I used that word like a scam artist, which is what the manipulators really are. If I manipulated you into burning the first paper out of a pack of Jokers, and always putting your right sock and shoe on first I would be no less a manipulator. But I would gain nothing.
I have manipulated many to do certain things, but not for my own personal benefit. Mainly for their's. If it came down to it I could probably tell alot of people which hand to wipe their ass with. The general public really is that stupid. I could tell them straight out that they should wipe their ass with their left hand because they shake hands with their right. I can make it make sense to them. This would not be all that difficult and they would never know that they are engaging in an Arab tradition.
As I said I cannot be exhautive on this subject, but there are a few more things worth mentioning. Aesthetics are so important these days. If you look good you do good, at least that is the perception, and perception is the key. It is not what you say that matters, it is what they hear. Hard to grasp ? If so, you are not truly educated, and are therefore subject to this nonconsentual domination. This is fact folks. When you see it coming you can do something, when it hits you without warning it can wreck your judgement, if you have any to start with.
It's like playing chess with Bobby Fisher, you will lose but the experience might be worth it. But you'll have to go to Iceland to do it because he will never come back to the US. Let me not say it, just go out there and find out just why he will never come back. He knows. Icelanders know.
Back to the stream. What about contradictions ? Handled easily, if you don't already have some skewed evidence all you have to do is create it. Easy if you have the money. You can buy a local newschannel for pennies relatively. If you got billions in the bank, and could wipe out half of the national debt there is absolutely no reason for you to do so. Your best option is to go for broke, go for more, go for it all.
Like a real poker game. If time limits are not set, the game continues until there is only one Man at the table and he has cleaned everyone out. The best bet then is to buy the bar a drink. Works both ways. What I have done has moved me into a position of power, which I'll not describe right now, but I assure you my power will outlast my money.
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Why do I bother to type this out ? Because I want my power to outlast my life. I want people to know. Some of you know and some don't. We are being played like a violin, and I don't like it at all. I am not fooled by it and I will not succumb to it. I do not watch their media, listen only occasionally to the radio in the car, and have no interest in some of the bigeest things going on, like sports. I used to have one of the best five foot TVs in this country, and a surround system that would blow your mind before they came into vogue. I had it where I could turn the front speakers to the radio and get the superior announcements from them, and when the game was on ABC (Monday) my house was better than any bar. In my back speakers I had only crowd noise, you could hear people yelling "fuck you" and all kinds of things because I could remix the ABC audio feed. In the meantime if you had to piss or something (three to four cases of beer in the house) it was loud enough you could hear it in the bathroom or the basement or the driveway, in fact in the neighbor's bathroom.
I gave it all up once I realized what it really is, and that is why I am here to tell you. If you have similar opinions great, if you are enlightened somehow even better. The rest are either ignorant or part of the problem.
T
ETA, I have now read the responses, which I said I would not do until I was done. Lance, I'll get back to you. Your problem with this seems to be mainly based on how it is expressed rather than the content. That's fine, maybe I used too many words, but I am not the only one in the world guilty of that. We'll hash it out a bit later. And quit saying bye bye. Dammit, don't try this shit with me. If you meant it the next post from you would not be there, fact. I do get your point and have been told before that I have a bit different way of expressing myself. I can accept that, but I do try not to ramble.
T
< Message edited by Termyn8or -- 4/4/2010 4:28:49 AM >
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