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Picture Books

Books and guns have the same marketing strategy

Kieran

Nov 7

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Humans are “de-evolving” into their tiny little bird brains.

Just look around, people are getting Dumber and Dumber (and the fact that anyone could sit through that fucking movie proved it).

Some will blame Trump and his Idiocracy (who thought that was written by Nostradamus). Some will blame the PC police and their bans on any “unacceptable” thought.

They are both partially right. But those are symptoms, not the cause.

I have found the root cause. And strangely enough, I found it in the deep sea of idiocy — the internet. I was searching for examples of good writing, book recommendations, and top blogs. What I found was a sea of pictures. Pages and pages of pictures and videos about what is “good writing.” The top 10 blogs were nothing but pictures and captions.

What the fuck?

Books are the New Guns

Sure Amazon is selling a ton of books, but it’s like guns. They are selling more and more shit to the same small group of people.

I know because every two weeks I take my father to Barnes & Noble to buy a book or two. It’s always the same people.

I imagine they are all like him. He’s got books packed from floor to ceiling and all over the tables and every flat surface (including the stove). He has packed 550 books into 500 square feet. None of his books have pictures, and most of them are big enough to stop doors.

If he bought guns like he does books, the ATF would have burned down his apartment like he was a wacko in Waco.

He’s fucking up the curve.

The rest of us are clickity-click-clicking all day long and looking at pages and pages with pictures.

I know. I’ve seen the analytics on this Bullshit. Anything with text gets skipped. No matter how important the words or what they are trying to say, we skip over them to get to the cat video.

It’s not just douchebag millennials. Old people used to read. Now they Facebook — call it good.

Even if you read this far, don’t look down your fucking nose at the rest of us. I see the numbers on this site, if there’s a picture, you linger.

Doesn’t anybody remember the 5th grade. We used to make fun of the kid who was still reading “Picture Books.” I punched Tim Watts in the face in the 7th grade, because his library book was full of pictures.

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