Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Amway and American Fascism
I'm elevating this comment from Giuseppe Abote:
I thought this angle was interesting. Anyone else have thoughts/info on the connections between Amway and our current slide toward destruction?
posted by Blicero : 2/22/2005 03:30:00 PM
Doug Wead = Amway. The man is a high-ranking "Diamond" in the sales network. That means he appears on stage at enormous Amway rallies in municipal stadiums before adoring crowds of thousands who lap up his stock phrases in praise of Amway's special mixture of bare-knuckles capitalism and Christianist demagogy.
Why do big shots in Amway get so rich and powerful? Because they make all the thousands of deluded distributors beneath them in the pyramid purchase oodles of motivational cassettes. The money the big-time operators make off tapes is truly, truly unbelievable. Mansions, motorboats, Cadillac cars, an entire private island in the Caribbean.
But ... oh. NY Times says, "He said he never sought to sell or profit from" the tapes. Oh, forget it then!
I thought this angle was interesting. Anyone else have thoughts/info on the connections between Amway and our current slide toward destruction?
posted by Blicero : 2/22/2005 03:30:00 PM
