Who knows when it began.  'WE' were launched into a 150 year process of inventions that seemingly kept making life easier. Cars, electricity,nuclear power, cell phones, computers.  Some illness was wiped out. Previously fatal disease and injuries were made livable. Some disease became like catching a cold.

The world it kept a changin'.

The banking and insurance system never really changed. They exist to get huge funds of money in a pool, and they invest that money in our stock markets and such, and they do so with the ok of federal insurance.   Banks loan out money for homes because there are many corrections to markets and bad estate planning that are all part of the equation.  Bank loans money, you pay for decades and you pay far more with interest, then a mysterious market correction happens and the bank takes your home and sells it again when you have an injury or inevitable loss of income. There is also the scenario that you pass away and the bank or health care system gets your home even if you had it paid for.   The bank and insurance always win. It is an interesting math problem that most of the world is part of.

Tip- pay cash up front on real estate.  Time is the only capital. Own things that will outlive us. If you have a home loan, you are really paying rent.

I can say this because I am poor.

Everything is very transparent in our world if you open your mind to it.

Computers are linked by their signal connection.  In reality, all phones and computers are now linked. All that information is being gathered. Much of it is gathered for the use of sales and marketing. Business is the same as it has always been, but many companies will tell you until they learn how to use this information, making an actual sale may be getting harder due to an abundance of competition. The lack of ability to use the info is making a mess.  The really big companies are getting bigger because they know exactly what to sell and to who.

With the use of social media and all this data from our computers, someone out there knows everything there is to know about anyone with a computer. EVERYTHING.  They are using social media as the social conscience of this system.

Believe it or not, We are all now linked as a universal mind. Collective conscience.  Once believed to be in insects,( at least I believed it)  someone has masterminded it to happen to us.  We are ALL linked together, and soon it will be even more apparent who the worker bee is, and who the Queen is.

Watch how we are manipulated through media and advertisers. We are moving in shapes, not as one. Pulled and pushed.   What are we moving to?

One day , there will be a Giant Global Conglomerate Government Business.  No more business competition. We will all do our jobs, if there are any to do. We will get charged by the thought, basically. When we want something , it will be monitored by the HOME COMPUTER BRAIN LINK and whatever we want will be 3D scanned and created for us.  Food, music, physical needs....all taken care of.

The next innovation from there is they just let us imagine it as reality.  That would probably be cheaper.

Conspiracy Theory....nah. Just a story.  Is it fiction or non fiction? I don't know.  My next posts will probably be silly pictures to change the mood of my collective blogging experience.

Thanks for your time

Mark Burkenbine

What is the next big social forum?   Through the years , social gatherings have evolved greatly.  We gathered around the fire. We gathered around the kill. We met at churches,town halls and at family members homes. Vacations, parties and  events were held in all manner of places. Meals were and still are often part of the celebration or exchanges of information.

The radio came along and it was the new big thing. Television. Phone calls. Conference calls. Video calls. Cell phones. Texting. The internet. Chat rooms.  Video chat from your phone. Social media websites.

Every place people gather, business and sales follow. Every place  eventually gets too many people, or too many that don't see eye to eye, and someone eventually finds a new "thing".

What is the next new thing? The current social media sites have incredible volumes of people, but already have an incredible percentage of users that either aren't very social, or are just trying to sell something. Social Media is a medium that has a lot of companies still trying to figure out how to make any money with it.  It is not far fetched that the entire landscape of social media will look nothing like it currently does in the next couple of years, is it?    Think of what your phone could do five years ago. Look at it now.

Humans have a way of seeing or imagining something that is fictional, and somehow making that come true.   Take a look at submarines, space travel and cloning.  Were those inventions not first introduced in great novels ?

In five years, will we all be setting around the radio again? I think that would be great, but doubt it happens.

How much longer before we have telepathy?  If you think spam is a problem now, wait until we have banner ads, virus, spam and hacking on our own brainwaves.

Thanks for your time

--Mark Burkenbine

Dear Diary

Dear Diary.  It has been  seventy days since THE BLOG has begun.   The ravages of social media and the mindless  ‘promoting’ is taking its toll.   What began with big dreams has begun to feel like a  habit being pushed on by hours and hours of mindless –Inspiration.  All of those historical quotes  and spam have made me believe that ANYTHING could happen. It just could.  I have read about this phenomena and have a theory.  

In every  zombie and mummy movie the monsters make a grunting noise.  Their jaws and tongues don’t articulate it well , but after much research I have it figured out.  

“UGHLINDIDSNKargh.  “  If you record that noise and play it back slowly, every  one of these monsters is saying the same thing.   

It’s  monster speak for  “ I think I can.”

It is all so clear to me  now.  We are in the mindless Zombie  war right now, and have been for awhile. 

All Business is ruined forever due to cheap and free information on the internet.  Do it yourself anything can be attempted  by absolutely anyone.  Do it yourself is not just for the smart and capable anymore. Anyone can find info to build weapons, do surgeries, make your own beer, diagnose yourself,

Crazy stunt videos are rampant on various social media sites. I have seen kids jumping over moving cars. People are eating things that could kill them.  Self inflicting pain  for the hopes of an audience. ( kind of like blogging).  All on video in the hopes that so many people will watch , they can get paid and become their own advertising vehicle. 

Everyone inspired by inspirational quotes to do things they have no idea how to do properly. “You can do it”…..”Your God says you can”…..”this famous person says to reach higher”….”this famous person says smile at what you have”…” If you think it, you can do it” “ no pain no gain”.

It is all driven by  sales and marketing campaigns of one sort or another.  The self help and do -it -yourself  sales force is relentless.  Every business is trying to use everybody on social media as an unpaid sales force.  Click , like , share and spam this , that and the other.

Hell, it has even created a field of business for Social Media Coaches.   COACHES.   People to help you get your message in just the right places at just the right times to increase exposure to your own personal brand.  You still probably won’t make a dime doing this, but what you have really done is made yourself a better free salesman of your personal brand. Great Personal Branding means you are a good place for the content host to put their advertisers.   It is a good deal for someone.  Gaming the system always is.

For every person out there who thinks he can, there is someone benefitting greatly from  being able to make you think that.   Sales and marketing really do run that deep into our lives.

No self help book will every tell you anything that  your mom, dad, siblings or friends did not already tell you.  Find a friend to help, don’t buy a book.  The needed advice that matters is always free or you always  already know what you should do.

Learn everything you can about the field you want to get into. It is your only percentage play.  Process beats dreams almost every time.  Luck is what it is. 

Just don’t come down with a case of the   ithinkicandothis.   By the time it  becomes  “UGHLINDIDSNKargh, it is to late and you are eating brains.

What you are looking for is a case of  “ I know how to do this”.

Thank you for your time

Mark Burkenbine

This being said....I love the chaos of it all.  This chaotic fight for sales and advertising spaces will always happen when customers congregate, where ever that may be. Business has to be where the money is. That is the ONLY business rule.

Social Media Lesson #1

Needless Inspirations