Why heavy Facebook users might as well be dancing on puppet strings

Today there are officially two kinds of people: 1. Those spending all day on Facebook 2. Those not spending all day on Facebook And I would bet green money if you were to put a representative of each side by side, with both of their mental, physical, and emotional (as well as hormonal) “markers” compared… you’d see two very different people inside and out. In this case, I highly suspect the former’s psychological, hormonal, and emotional well-being would be far more likely to resemble a frequent customer of an Old West opium den than the latter’s. I’ve noticed this in abundance over the years: Heavy Facebook users have significantly more mental “dullness” than non-heavy Facebook users. It’s truly night and day, too. And it rears its head in many ways. Like, for example, in how susceptible people are to obvious propaganda. In fact, true story: Stefania — who is only on there to sell high end apparel in the buy/sell groups and to do a little rabble rousing for the new BerserkerMail Facebook group — was telling me about a stray post she wished she could “unsee” on there that was so outrageously dumb & blatantly propagandistic about a certain lie the media is spreading like wildfire right now… I am pretty sure I lost an IQ point or two just hearing it. I remember thinking: “How can a grown adult who votes & pays taxes actually fall for this stupidity?” The answer is the same reason people fell for the obvious jab & mask propaganda lies: Facebook. People always on there are particularly susceptible to "effect" while outright attacking logic as Alfred Hitchcock used to talk about. It’s ol' Alfie made movies that created fortunes in ticket sales for plots that have so many holes in them you could drive a mack truck through them. One screenwriter even asked him about this sort of thing. And Hitchcock cheerfully admitted he didn’t care about logic, just effect. Because the only time a person thinks of logic is after watching one of his movies on the drive home. How about that? Sounds a lot like the "we need covid amnesty" idiots at The Atlantic who realized they were duped. But by that time, and goes especially those who took all the shots, they’ve already paid for their ticket… So it is on the book of faces. The control for society’s collective minds has always been logic vs effect. For example: Think of an "emergency." Any fake emergency hyped up by the media'll do. Now, simply toss in multiple millions of dollars in funding from organizations that feed off the government grant teet and need people to keep believing in said emergency to keep getting funding… sprinkle in words like “pro science”, “scientists” & “peer reviewed” along with lots of carefully worded citations from corporate-financed studies and corporate written fan fiction… have it further backed up by their favorite news media outlet talking head… and voila! — Instantly believed by 100s of millions. Not a single person on their $900 iPhone believing it even tries to disprove the claim - like what actual trained scientists do to theories, as opposed to people who just virtue signal on social media about how they they read "I f__ing love science" and are "pRo sCiEnCE!" looking to validate their views - since it’s now their reality. You can tell these dorks a mile away as they will say “the science is settled!” No, Bill Nye, it’s not. But that’s a good illustration of logic vs effect. And you will see it everywhere once you’re aware of it. But, probably not if you’re always diddling around in the Facebook opium den, unfortunately. Which brings me to the devious rub: Ken McCarthy’s “Advanced Copywriting For Serious Info Marketers” course. It not only is a great power education in the “effect” side of copywriting & growing an info publishing offer (although he does not use that exact terminology, it is “laced” throughout the second part of the course especially)… but it’s a course that is specifically for the thinking man or woman. It ain’t for the brain-addled social media addict. I’d argue the brain-addled social media addict isn’t even capable of learning it. Not fully, at least. Anyway, I say that as a warning if you’re on the fence about buying. One of the best things about all Ken’s books and courses is they are always designed for and primarily benefit the thinking person who questions narratives, who doesn’t need a checklist to make decisions, and who tries to “break” and disprove their own assumptions instead of just looking for ways to validate them. Those looking to validate instead of break are doing the exact opposite of the science which all the blue light specials getting half mast John Thomases over Ridley Scott movies & sharing “I Fugking Love Science!” memes clearly have never been introduced to. More: Ken’s offering it at a gigantic discount for businesses in my Horde until tonight (Friday 1/12) at midnight EST. Plus, if you use my affiliate link and send me your receipt, the title of the book you want me to send you, & the shipping address by that deadline (not after — to be clear, you must send your receipt, shipping address, and the title you want to me, not just buy the course, BEFORE the deadline to get it), I will send you: 1. Free copy of any ONE book I sell I don’t care if it’s one of the bigger ticket ones or one of the more inexpensive ones. Simply buy Ken’s course by the deadline and then email me your receipt with your shipping address & the book you want me to send you (also by the deadline — if you send me your receipt, the title of the book you want, and your shipping address AFTER the above deadline, I am not sending you the book, let me be very clear about that here) 2. Live call with me and Ken about: The end of the world! Not only will we talk about copywriting (of course), but I want to grill him about the economy. Understand that Ken “came of age” in finance during the 80’s in Wall Street. I have learned more from him (and I told him this recently) about not just basic economics that is not taught in school than from anyone else, but he genuinely has given me a lot of peace of mind knowing what he does on this topic. Those who read this month’s Email Players issue will know what I mean by that. Not only peace of mind, but he has helped me position and adjust my own finances, what I invest in (it’s not investing advice, just by understanding what’s going on you can make better decisions), what I buy and don’t buy, how I think of money, how I am planning for the fallout of what’s been going on for over a decade and is about to completely unravel probably this year — maybe sooner than the end of the year, maybe later, but it’s inevitable — and the list goes on. This call (day & time TBA) will be live to customers of this promo. (NOTE: this is not for those who bought from earlier promos for this course from me, you got different valuable bonuses. I say this for the greedy guy who always haunts my inbox as if he doesn’t understand how basic, 101 marketing and merchandising works — these are the goobers who probably go to JC Penny and complain that the current sale on dress shirts is great, and as someone who bought one of the shirts a year earlier at a different price, they should still get the current deal prorated for them this time…) All right ‘nuff said about that. The deadline is tonight, Friday 1/12 at midnight EST to get Ken’s course at the discount, get any ONE book I sell (if you send me your receipt, shipping address, and the title of the book you want me to send you by the deadline, if you send the above to me after the deadline I will NOT send you the book, many-a-disappointed-customer who couldn’t tell time has learned this hard way…), plus access to the live call above. 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