Here’s a fun fact for you:
When Star Wars was first released back in 1977, while being an immediate success and raked in insane amounts of money, the likes of which had almost never been seen before, still not everyone seemed to like it.
More specifically.
Some critics called the movie “as simple as black and white—and not in a good way,” even going as far as writing “The blockbuster, bestselling movie Star Wars is one of the most racist movies ever produced.”
Another criticism read, “The force of evil in Star Wars is dressed in all black and has the voice of a black man… That character reinforces the old stereotype that black is evil.”
Here’s another example (taken word for word from the book George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones):
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Another critic even ‘pointed out’ that the two droids acted, and were treated, like slaves, all the way down to being sold to a young white man they called “Master”.
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Seriously, I wish I was making this stuff up.
This proves to me one thing and one thing only.
People will hate you no matter what. The more successful you are, the more the hatred will become.
There’s just no pleasing everyone.
One of my favorite quotes (and guiding principles) I’ve learned in the past year is from the great Dan Kennedy himself: “If you haven’t offended anyone by noon each day, you’re not marketing hard enough.”
The more I grow and learn, the more I realize how true this is.
Case in point: I’m offending people left, right, and center on LinkedIn (so much so I imagine I might get banned again soon, but I simply realized how insignificant that is and how little that matters) and things have been going better than ever.
Now, I’m not offending people just for the sake of it.
People get offended by me for calling out their bullshit takes
Example: Yesterday a big account (30k+ or something) made a post saying “You shouldn’t post with your ideal clients in mind, but with other creators in mind because they are the ones who engage with your content”
Ah yes, let me join the circle jerk of creators and fuel our dopamine receptors by getting lots of likes and comments but making $0 in the meantime (also, that creator is a ghostwriter so what a good thing it is that her ideal client is the exact person that’s reading the posts of the people who comment on here stuff—shady and manipulative tactics everywhere).
Even more, the post had hundreds of likes and comments, all of which are positive ones.
I’m guessing either most people are brainwashed and just don’t know any better than to join the circle jerk (which is a good thing for you and me because that’s less competition) or nobody on LinkedIn even dares the oppose someone else’s views because the platform is full of politically correct professional types who wouldn’t dare sharing their honest views in fear of getting canceled (I’ve been on the platform for 2 weeks and already don’t like a lot of what I see).
But enough about that.
If you get offended by me. Then either 1) grow up and realize you might be brainwashed to believe things that not only don’t help you make money but actively hurt you in the process or 2) leave my list and go haunt another person who’ll tell you stuff that makes you feel good, yet offer no actual solutions.
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