CrisisEraDynamo wrote:
> Mr. Xenakis, you've been beating the Clash of Civilizations drum
> for a while now. What puzzles me is that you don't try to get more
> exposure for Generational Dynamics, considering what you're
> predicting. Granted, Big Peace seems to have helped a bit, but
> I've seen little discussion beyond that site. Is it because you
> don't want to project a "cult leader" image? You don't want people
> thinking you're trying to sell them something? Help me out here.
I've certainly tried, and a couple of other people have tried for me.
I've also tried running ads and I once issued a couple of press
releases, but those were all a waste of money. Generational Dynamics
is not a "viral" kind of thing. There are very few people who want to
try to deal with this kind of stuff. They want to believe that
everything will be ok, and they don't want to hear anything else.
The ones who come to this site and visit regularly are people who can
overcome their anxieties, and can prepare themselves and their
families for what's coming. That kind of population cannot spread
virally. Each individual has to find Generational Dynamics on his
own.
I know from my own experience of telling my friends and co-workers
about this site. A couple read everything I write and discuss it with
me; all the rest ignore the whole thing. A few consider me to be a
psychopathic maniac, or actively hate me. This is something I've
learned to live with.
I started the web site in 2002, and I can recall the days when
I was getting only a few page hits per day. It's been growing
steadily since then, and now it's close to 10,000.
As I've said many times before, I expect never to be any kind of hero.
I have a very dark feeling about what's going to happen to me. I
identify closely with the mythical Cassandra, hated and disbelieved in
her predictions, and then reviled and raped and later killed when the
predictions came true.
Apollo fell in love with Cassandra and gave her the gift of seeing the
future. When she spurned his advances, he cursed her: She could still
prophesy the future, but nobody would believe her. She warned people
not to bring the wooden horse into the city of Troy, and predicted
that it would lead to disaster. When her predictions came true, and
the soldiers poured out of the Trojan Horse and massacred most of the
people in the city, Cassandra was reviled and raped.
After the war, Cassandra became a concubine of King Agamemnon.
Agamemnon's wife, who was having an affair herself, laid a trap for
Agamemnon. Cassandra foresaw the trap and warned him. but he ignored
her warnings and, as a result, both Agamemnon and Cassandra were
killed.
I know that I'm truly one with Cassandra. I expect the worst, a very
dark future, and my only hope is that I don't end up being raped
myself. As it says in Ecclesiastes: "For with much wisdom comes much
sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."
Which brings us back to the beginning. Many people don't want any
more knowledge, because they don't want the grief that comes with
it.
Having said all that, I'm still open to specific suggestions to
get increased exposure. If you have any ideas, by all means let
me know.
John