On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Nicole Waldron wrote:
> Janine,
>
> Thanks so much for the words of encouragement! I guess I've
> finally gotten it through my thick Mainer head that nothing I say is
> going to make a difference.
That's an important and big step. These groups are run like cults and
many are considered cults by experts. We often have trouble grasping
that because we think cults are organizations that are in some compound
somewhere and people aren't allowed to leave. It's hard to wrap one's
head around the idea that a cult can have members that go home and go
to work and can still be under a tight control. Even though they seem
to go to "normal" events in life, they can still be just another brick
in the wall.
And yes, that reference was intentional. Think about the lines
in "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." They apply quite well to MLMs
which work like cults (or are cults):
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
While it was about school, the point of education being used for thought
control, the dark sarcasm (which I'd apply to the MLM use of terms
like "loser") and it all fits. They're drones, bricks in the wall, and
they've been conditioned to believe all their upslime tells them and to
label anything said against their group as dreamstealing.
> It just galls me that the people in my
> town involved with Market America are mostly single mothers living on
> shoestring budgets, and others who have financial difficulties.
It galls me, too. Like payday loan companies and credit card companies
that jack up interest rates to 30% for the slightest reason, these
people are getting rich on those that can least afford to lose the
money. I think, in some ways, we were better off before cities got so
big. If you were ripping people off, you had to continue to face them
and their friends and continue to do business with that same community
so there were reasons for banks and others to not take that kind of
advantage of people.
> Not
> all, but most. Some had to borrow money or use credit cards for the
> initial money to "buy in" because they didn't have it to spend.
And then when they miss a payment on a credit card, the interest rate
will go up to 30%. Think of that: If they borrow $3,000 total and miss
a payment, the interest for that year will be almost $1,000 on $3,000.
> I
> wish there were some charity involved that I didn't think was a tax
> shelter for the higher-ups that I could support. I haven't said this
> to my friend, but if Market America has been around for 15 years
> there must be loads of people by now who "followed the plan" are
> retired and living on those six-figure residual incomes - where are
> they???
Put that as a question. The problem is there are some that are doing
well (because they've abused others) so they're the examples and that's
all she needs.
> Thanks for letting me vent...
That's one of the reasons we're here.
Hal
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