Here’s a blogger’s value:
Hello,
I am the marketing manager for Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster publishers. I am writing to offer you a free review copy of You Call the Shots, by 21-year-old Cameron Johnson. This charismatic young author started his first business when he was nine and made his first million before he graduated high school. By doing so, he managed to pay his way through college – almost unheard of in today’s economy. In this new book he shares the amazing story of his career so far, as well as the lessons he’s learned about success in both business and life. I think it might be of interest to you and to the readers of One Stop Thought. If you are a parent, it also might be an interesting and motivational read for your son or daughter.If you would like to receive a complimentary copy, just send me the appropriate mailing address. Cameron is excited at the prospect of the online media, especially bloggers, and he would be more than willing to do an online Q&A. If you are interested, I would be happy to set it up.
Thank you,
Shannon
Shannon Gallagher
Marketing Manager, Free Press
Simon & Schuster
Here’s my simple answer:
Dear Shannon,
When I was young, I taught sky and brightening things… .I appreciate your niche and the work you carry. I appreciate your community and the faith you carry. But sorry, I am not a tool. I will not use my blog in your brigade.
What goes up comes down, what goes around comes around, for each action there is a reaction, and so on. Life is intrinsically self-correcting at almost all its levels, including evolutionary, physiological, historical and genetic. This permits a limited optimism.
Wickedness and stupidity are ultimately self-destructive and self-limiting, so we need not trouble ourselves that any particular trend in that direction will go on indefinitely. Sooner or later — and usually sooner — they will be reversed.
On the other hand, the principle of self-correction also applies to love, friendship and high intellectual powers. No movement in these directions can proceed long without setting up counter-pressures against their further spread. cooperative strategies suggest long-term trends (under a broad range of conditions) toward greater cooperation, contingent on ever more sophisticated discrimination.