June 29th, 2004
(Note: Everything I say about "Marketeers" today is meant to be about the archetype of a "Marketeer". The essence, the smell of a "Marketeer". Undoubtedly, some little minds would get defensive and say, "But-but-but ... I'm not like that!")
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You know, I'll be perfectly honest about Marketeers and my irritation with them:
They bug the hell out of me because they remind me that if I were only 25 or 30 IQ points lower, or a few grades of emotional swampiness greater, I'd be good at their jobs and little lives too. What bugs me the most is that they don't have sophisticated-enough wiring to place a self-imposed filter of sensibility on themselves.
Now, I've worked with lots of Marketeers over the course of my career, and believe you me, I usually intimidate them and make them nervous. They tend to avoid me after a couple of meetings, and their emails mysteriously don't get CC'ed to me after a while because, although they aren't straight-thinking enough to know what will make me howl, they are savvy enough to know that I will.
And since Marketeers are only about short-sighted jury-rigged repairs to what's wrong at a certain instant in time, they don't think about the repercussions that inevitably crop up later on, when a crisis is manufactured by their previous display of irresponsibly thoughtless instant knee-jerk pain-avoidance stupidity. An analogy in pure physical terms is that they'd be afraid to run out of a burning building because it will get hotter before it gets cooler, so they'll just sit where they are until the fire starts melting their skin. And once they are into a serious crisis and someone has to come rescue them, they emerge victorious as though they were clever and wonderful for their endurance ... and somehow forget that they endangered themselves and their rescuers (whom they invariably neglect to acknowledge) by short-sighted mindlessness.
You see, lots of people in this world could be as sub-gifted, as shallow, as emotionally stupid as Marketeers. Lots of people could mortgage their friends, families, and futures for a tiny gain right now. Just about everyone could live life without a single interest in moral and ethical responsibility, but not everyone does, and what hurts about it is that they suffer in their lives and their status because of it. And that's what really pisses me off the most.
Hmm, I'm sounding a bit like a college student today.
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I'm a Googlewhack! Li'l ol' me! See June 26th guestbook entry here.
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This is a secret message; just because I am in a silly frivolous mood.