from: Bloodstone43956@i-mail.irs
to: Raventrap39996@i-mail.irs
date: 7518.34566
My Dear Raventrap ~
I understand your efforts to distort the meanings of passages from Our Competitor’s Book have brought home some dividends. You seem to have taken the point of my last I-mail seriously. Thanks to the DODD, the simple statement in His Book, “I know the plans I have for you, to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,” is now open to different “interpretations.” Of course we know Our Competitor was thinking about our clients’ contracts when He said this, but the little snipes don’t know that. You’ll do well if you can get your clients to believe this clause is all about their material prosperity. The opportunities are two-fold for us. Either our clients will “prosper” or not. If they don’t, they might think their lack of prosperity, or coming to harm, means they are somehow deficient beings, undeserving of Our Competitor’s favor. If they manage to accrue wealth, they might think Our Competitor has blessed them because they were better than others. Either way we have an open door to their contracts.
We know damned well Our Competitor was not necessarily planning to give our clients material prosperity. We also know some of the little packrats have more ability to gather riches than others. So, don’t let your clients think for one moment that a sense of belonging, friendship, service to others, roots in a community, and so on have anything to do with prospering. The future, as Our Competitor sees it, is almost impossible for their little minds to grasp. Since most of them are thinking about how to become rich by the time they are 30, it shouldn’t be too difficult to convince them Our Competitor shares their “plan.” Meanwhile, our options are the usual: despair or pride. Both are elegant choices, one for failure, and the other for success.
Speaking of pride, it’s a matter of some pride here that many humans have adopted one of the mottos from Our Executive’s X Commandments. The Tenth Commandment clearly states, “Greed is good.” As you’ve no doubt witnessed, greed can motivate all sorts of choices that can bring our clients closer to The Corporation. They will stab their friends and colleagues in the back, both figuratively and literally, to get what they want. Many have even killed members of their own family for wealth and power. Even though the prospect of murder makes me salivate, we don’t need to tempt our clients as far as that. Everyday betrayal, lying, cheating, and stealing will do. If you can swindle your clients into swindling their associates, this works as well as murder for our side. Our Competitor wants them to understand the word, ambition, to mean a drive to improve themselves. Our Executive is more realistic. To Him, ambition means a desire to get whatever they can for themselves, even if it means walking over others to get it.
Consider the following: A man who thought he was more honorable than his brothers asked Our Competitor, “Oh that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And Our Competitor granted him what he requested. This is a direct quote from Our Competitor’s Book! Many of our clients have already been conditioned to believe this passage justifies whatever wealth comes their way. Some even believe Our Competitor will give them sweet material treats to show how much He “honors” them. You see, Raventrap, the trick is to take passages like this out of context. Indeed, any passage from The Book, when taken out of context, can be indescribably useful to us.
It takes very little convincing to prevent our clients from reading the whole Book or even large portions of it. In fact, all we need to do is murmur, “there isn’t time right now,” or “what about that report you’ve been meaning to read?” or “look at what so-and-so posted on his blog,” or better yet, “you’re too tired to concentrate.” If your suggestion works, they might fall prey, not just to those who stand to gain by interpreting The Book for them, but in the end to The Corporation.
Fortunately for us, Our Competitor has a number of so-called “sales representatives” who actually tell their clients if they give money to a particular branch office of Our Competitor’s Company, they will in turn be greatly “rewarded” with riches of their own! You must support these representatives. The more we can get our clients to believe Our Competitor requires a monetary “down payment” as part of the deal, the closer they come to thinking like Our Executive. Of course, we regard obtaining their contracts as a business transaction. Our job is to see how cheaply they will sell them to us.
We all know “greed is good.” Both The Corporation and Our Competitor’s Company have a right to maximize profits, and to do all the things they need to do in order to secure a contract. Our Executive insists He has a “right” to treat His workers any way He sees fit. That’s the way The Corporation was set-up. Our Competitor has some puerile rules about doing the “right” things. What a joke!
Of course, a thing is “right” if it wins contracts, period! The end fully justifies the means. All’s fair in war, as the saying goes. We must do everything in our power to maximize profits, or else. That is the nature of Our Executive’s business. On the other hand, Our Competitor is for “optimizing” profits, whatever that means. He seems to believe “greed is not good.” He wants the little morsels not to think too much about themselves, but to do what is best for others. He advocates balancing the needs of any company with the common good, for everyone concerned, not just trying to make as much profit as possible. Our Executive is an adversary to this position ~ this kind of thinking is totally unacceptable to Him. If He could, He would launch a hostile takeover of Our Competitor’s Company immediately. But, so far, He has not been successful in marshalling the resources to do so. Perhaps if young tempters like you did a better job, His dream might one day become a reality.
Your Devoted Cousin,
Bloodstone
MurrayWorks 