The Temptation of George Rusky.
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- December 30th, 2008 |
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Greetings,
I’m writing to you to apportion any of my concerns and
at the same time, ask you for help.
It’s about the Internet.
The biggest problem caused by the Internet, as I can accompany it, is the openness and accessibility to an bottomless amount of information.
Naturally, one who can adjoin a key board at least with one finger, should accept the Internet with all its good and evil as an incredible invention of all times.
That’s one broadside of the coin.
Another one is that I’m all lost in the ocean of online offers; one is more alluring than other.
”The best method of creating your riches on line…” shouts at us a sales letter.
“The most progressive ever artifact of building your list of subscribers…”hollers another.
Tens if not hundreds of messages (most of them, certainly, uninvited) call us to prosperity on line.
I was raised to respect the morpheme written. It’s not only The Constitution , laws of the country, school textbooks, manuals, instructions, notes, you name it!
The Bible, of course. I will always remember a notorious question my Pastor old to ask me: ”What is written in the Bible about it?”
Looked like for every problem one had ever experienced, Pastor could find the answer in the Bible.
In abbreviated, the miraculous power of the morpheme, written in my heart, is written ‘in endocarp.’
Now, when I read the bottomless list of acme adjectives of sales letters I feel desperate, booming to find out ‘where the dog is hidden.’
The messages where the writers start expression:
”Don’t you lose this one in your entire life opportunity, etc”
I admiration, if one can find a pumpkin, who would care to lose his one time in his entire life chance?
So, I click the link, open the site and read a primary report, nicely formatted, highlighted, emphasized, wetting good news into my face, raping me with ‘order, order, order, and again, order.’
But that’s not all!
“If you order before midnight,” it says, “you will careful get dozens of bonuses, so don’t leave!”
I move aside from my desk everything, spilling a cup of coffee I was advised to grasp before reading a message, fumbling for my ‘electronic wallet’ and just about to fill in the form…
Thanks the Lord, it is allay necessary to fill in the form, the last chance to escape the hypnotic daze of the sales letter, cool down, and recover from the fog of a ‘narcotic’ power of the commercial offer.
Uff, diaphoresis and symptom, I regain consciousness, trying to entertain something else and put off the hanging above me horrendous cloud of doubt:
”What if this is that one chance from a 1000 , which just come only to bold and astute individuals, who, after just a few months report to us:
”I come back to gloomy days of the season 200? when I didn’t have any money to pay the bills, to do this and that, etc, unless I met John Smith who showed me the big picture… so now my life has completely changed. Look at my house, I bought a week ago and a new car I’m cerebration of buying, and, so on.”
To resist this temptation is next to impossible…
With my last effort, I press my right hand so that not to click the desirable link action me to the treasures island where money grows on the trees and one can experience joy and gladness because one blessed day she clicked this miraculous link!
Paradise lost?
No, Mr John Milton,
Paradise found…
Instead of an epilog.
After nearly four years of trying to find a ‘Magic formula’ for getting rich on the Internet, I’m allay where I was last century.
“If I could do it, you can too…”
“Can I?”