Put the Kool Aid down and back away

by Cheryl Baumgartner(CITRMS) Independent Associate with LegalShield Some of us still remember the People's Temple and Jim Jones.  We remember the awful tragedy that took place in Guyana on November 18, 1978. when over 900 People committed suicide by drinking Cyanide laced Flavor Aid.  Flavor Aid was a powdered drink mix just like Kool Aid.  This created a new phrase in common usage today. "Drinking the Kool Aid"

'Drinking the Kool Aid' means blindly following along without thought.  Another phrase for gullibility.  It seems that drinking the Kool Aid is a requirement in internet marketing today.  Gullibility rules the day.  If a program promises easy money, people will join it even when logic dictates that it is a scam, a pyramid scheme or a ponzi.  People will vehemently defend it.  Even putting proof in front of them in the form of statement from the Federal Trade Commission, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies will not deter them from their defense.

These Die-hards jump from program to program and will do their best to convince others to follow along too.  They will squeeze their eyes shut to warning signs and expect others to ignore those same warnings. 

In the case of the People's Temple there were warning signs.  Warning signs that Temple members ignored in their dedication to Jones.  Warning signs that friends, Defectors from  The Temple and family members tried to get Temple members to see before it was too late.  Unfortunately the efforts were in vain.  Hundreds voluntarily committed suicide.  Those who refused to commit suicide were killed.  And the world ended up mourning a tragedy and wondering how so many people could be so blind to what was going on around them.

Honest businessmen and women look at the obvious scams being promoted on the internet daily and we wonder to.  We wonder how so many people can be so blind to the glaring red flags.  We wonder why internet marketers are so determined to commit 'financial suicide' by jumping into scams, promoting scam and recruiting innocent victims to join the Scammer's Temple.

There's only once explanation.  Kool Aid sales are going through the roof.

Created on Nov 7th 2011 18:13. Viewed 493 times.

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