Look, No Fans

If you're one of my seven fans, please take a hike. As in get lost, go away, and disappear.

Contrary to popular opinion, I loathe the thought of being on anyone's fan list here at Associated Content. Why? Because the approved and accepted attitudes and judgements of too many AC writers are being forged from the forked tongues and mislead hearts of common corporate consumers.

America's need and greed for consumption, for the cold, hard cash of corporate success, is driving the steel shanks of sharp, deadly nails into the coffin of a country already half dead and buried.

Publishing, promoting, and connecting at AC may seem like a fun, frivolous game, but it's all part of a calculated corporate marketing strategy to dupe writers into believing that what they have to say is important.

AC writers who play the promotion game, who click and pick Favorites and become Fans of other content producers, are playing right into the hands of the corporate managers now running and ruling the AC writing game.

It's one of the oldest tricks in the corporate play book: boost the common consumer's ego and boost profits. If you're one of my current fans, all you're doing is massaging your own ego for the sake of boosting page views.

The dead-on truth of the matter is that none of it matters. None of the clicking and connecting at AC means anything. The ego-boosting system of you pat my back and I'll pat yours is just another way for consumers masquerading as writers to aggrandize themselves.

Conversely, it's an effective way for a corporation to fool ever-so-foolish American consumers into buying its products. The product in this case is the perception (and misconception) that being a published content producer with as many fans, favorites, and followers as possible is a necessary part of one's cyber life.

Please stop being my fan. Please refrain from becoming my fan. I know it feels good, but I refuse to be a chump, an easy corporate mark. They want us to play the game. They want us to pick and click our way to their bottom line of higher corporate profits.

It's the bull's-eyed truth, and I refuse to play that way.