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Psychotic Fiesta

I have not been blogging much lately because I have gone insane. I lost it (the ‘it’ people refer to as a necessity to function in society) last week when my paranoid delusions culminated in a severe breakdown – an unhinged instability churning like tornadic razors, gnawing at my sanity. It all started with a nervous energy, a twitching vibration of seething diffidence slithering betwixt my epidermis and subcutaneous fat.
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How Advertisers Prey Upon Psychological Dysfunction

So much of the advertising industry is based on taking advantage of people’s fears, psychological disorders and negative self image. Advertisers prey upon psychological dysfunction every day, and it is becoming more widely spread. Like many of you, I often sit up late at night and watch all those ridiculous infomercials. Do marketers sit around asking themselves questions like, “What is wrong with me and how can I fix it? Not only that, how can I do it easily with hardly any effort?”

To run an infomercial costs thousands of dollars each day they run, but someone is buying those products. Ultimately, any Internet marketing blogger would love to have an infomercial – I know I would! Most of them are get rich quick courses which endlessly run 365 days per year. What people fail to realize, is that once you purchase any of them, you have declared open season on yourself to be incessantly bombarded with more advertising. They want you to pay for seminars, mailing lists and try to milk every last penny from your bank account. The truth is, most people never get rich using these schemes and waste their money on them. I’m not saying they are all bad, but many are.
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