There are a few questions within this field that I’ve decided to make it my life’s work. Working freelance for public relations means being up to date with all the companies that are emerging, have emerged and which could use my help. Providing a free service to the companies means that they don’t lose anything if my work doesn’t satisfy, but have everything to gain if they prefer it.
I just realized that it’s Friday the 13th — what a fitting day for this post! 😀 [1]
While growing up, I learned some things that seem sort of out of vogue today. One such cornerstone of my learning experience was an opposition to anything that reeks of dictatorship or similar mob actions. Freedom was very much about intellectual freedom. I have written about this time and again (if you want to read more about this, check out some of the links on the homepage 😉 ).
In contrast, life today appears to me as if it were all about being in alignment with Big Brother. [2] Whether turning on the tube to watch, listen and follow the newspeak or turning to the Pope of the Internet [3] for guidance, or whatever, … it seems like everywhere modern men and women are in chains … chained to some sort of propaganda system or other that dictates their lives, right down to their thoughts. [4] The propaganda engines have been finely tuned and employ some of the most sophisticated technology available to mobsters everywhere all over the world (as we know it). [5]
The regular individual is a nobody.
In order to be a somebody, you need many millions of followers. VC money. Rapper jewels. A White House. Something with street cred.
Opinions don’t do shit. There ain’t no algorithms for ideas. Like Vinnie Barbarino used to say: “gimme clicks, gimme clicks, gimmie clicks, …”.
Vinny Barbarino (John Travolta): “Gimme …”
[1] I actually started writing this on Thursday. and at the time thought about (but decided against) including footnotes. Today I changed my mind — if you want to read the “original” text only, then just disregard these footnotes! 😉
After years of working in university newspapers and literary magazines, I ended up learning how to write in an unexpected, cutthroat industry: advertising. It’s exhausting on a day-to-day basis, but when you’re surrounded by the right people, it can be really fun! And it’s always a thrill to see my ideas come to life, even if sometimes it feels like it takes forever.
Keywords: Social Business , advertising , business , exploitation , marketing , mental health , narcissism , profit , profits , sucker , suckers , there’s a sucker born every minute , victim , victim mentality , victims
I have some hesitation about today’s topic. It’s complicated. And I feel a little bit outside of my “element” or “comfort zone” (ow whatever), which I feel is more logical, mathematical, rational, stuff like that.
This is about something completely different — most of all it’s about squishy wishy-washy stuff like feelings.
But before I start writing a post about my post, let me just dive into it. Perhaps a good starting point is this age-old saying:
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Many people say stuff like this all the time
I have even myself coined a term for this feeling. It goes beyond untrustworthy. I call something distrustworthy which is actually worthy of distrust (Google being a prime example that immediately springs to mind 😉 ).
Now let me get back to the complicated part for a moment.
Fun & games, happiness and all that jazz are important parts of life. We all want to be able to kid and play around a bit.
This is where the feelings come in. I think a big part of the Golden Rule is enjoying spending time here together. if someone is clearly not enjoying themselves, then you’re not doing it in a way that conforms to a “best of all possible worlds” scenario.
Now let me try to nail this thing down so we can consider what it all means.
A while back, I wrote a post about a saying usually attributed to P.T. Barnum (see “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute” [ https://socio.business.blog/2023/05/15/theres-a-sucker-born-every-minute ]). If your idea of “just fooling around” is a matter of taking advantage of someone, then that someone could reasonably be expected to feel taken advantage of” (which is, as far as I know, always — or at least almost always — not a nice feeling to experience).
I think this is then a situation which is in violation of the Golden Rule.
What makes this difficult is that it’s about feelings. A little kid may very well feel perfectly on top of the world and the kid’s parents may be more than happy to pay manyfold the value of whatever it is the kid gets out of it, but if the kid or the parents feels they’re being duped or suckered or played (or whatever). then what might have been the basis for a trustworthy relationship suddenly transforms into something completely different — namely: the basis for a distrustworthy relationship.
I could help others build a website and promote it as a side hustle for other customers because of my skills in making my own website and promoting it for this class.
Keywords: business , career , jewelry design , academia , business plan , capitalism , content development , higher education , LIS , media literacy , microbusiness , technology
I’m finding that I’m in a relatively privileged position to have gone through ethical training as regards Library and Information Science — and I can use these skills in ways other than being, “a Librarian.” In addition to being able to see things from an Economic or Business perspective, I also have some clue about the impact of the very same policies on society. For instance, I find that there is very likely a desperate need right now not only for literacy in reading and writing, but also — maybe more intensely — a need for media literacy; that is, an understanding by the polity as to how organizations can manipulate them through the juxtaposition of different media: words, sound, still image, and video or moving image, not to mention the endorsement of their “friends” (i.e. the business leverage of their emotional relationships). How does someone get training in this? Media Studies? Studies of the propaganda that led up the Holocaust?
Did you know that the action we make each day can affect someone we don’t know? What’s more interesting is that even that person doesn’t know they’ve been affected.
They all notoriously use brutally cheap labor in Asia, and all over the world, really. Most of it’s probably black market and pretty much human trafficking, but it’s astounding that I’m paying 70€ and someone else is actually paying 500 for jackets that are only making a very few rich people richer.
I think once I had a job being creative, I had found my calling. I had the freedom after given direction of what was wanted, to design for their company. I know they are many different jobs listed for the Multimedia Design career fields. Some seem more interesting than others. I know I found many that needed photography as well as certificates in Adobe. So far we have only done Photography and I found it very interesting. My photos are decent but I need to work on them a little more if I want to pursue that as a career. It says that a typical photographer makes about 32k a year. I am thinking that may be just a run of the mill photographer. If not, I may steer clear from that field. I know there are a lot of different job titles in advertising. Some include creative director, media director, marketing manager, promotions manager, product develop manager, and a media analyst. Those types of jobs require a little more than just a few certificates but it seems to be worth it for the 102k a year. I am not sure I’d like to have all that responsibility though. I like having the creative freedom and ability to go any way I’d like.
Wants 