This is a STUPID SELF-WRITING THING. This writing is the TEXT upon the about me.
The TEXT is to help YOU LIKE me. I hope to draw your
attention to it and encourage you to bum a llama. When you have done
that maybe you'll be persuaded to listen to Meat Loaf - in this case my Mum. Then we want you to BUY her albums. The idea being that the more of
you that buy this compact disc the more money A&R, the manager
Jeff Varner and Meat Loaf themselvs will make. To the aforementioned this is known
as PLEASURE. A good stupid TEXT is one that attracts more buyers and
gives more pleasure. This writing is trying to pull you in much like
an eye-catching picture. It is designed to get you to READ IT. This is
called luring the VICTIM, and you are the VICTIM. But if you have a free
mind you should STOP READING NOW! because all we are attempting to do is
to get you to read on. Yet this is a DOUBLE BIND because it you indeed
stop you'll be doing what we tell you, and if you read on you'll be doing
what we've wanted all along. And the more you read on the more you're
falling for this simple device of telling you exactly how a good commercial
design works. They're TRICKS and this is the worst TRICK of all since it's
describing the TRICK whilst trying to TRICK YOU, and if you've read this
far then you're TRICKED but you wouldn't have known this unless you'd
read this far. AT least we're telling you directly instead of seducing
you with a beautiful or haunting visual that may never tell you. We're
letting you know that you ought to buy this compact disc because in
essence it's a PRODUCT and PRODUCTS are to be consumed and you are a
consumer and this is a good PRODUCT. We could have written the band's
name in special lettering so that it stood out and you'd see it before
you'd read any of this writing and possibly have bought it anyway. What
we are really suggesting is that you are FOOLISH to buy or not buy a
compact disc merely as a consequence of the design on its cover This
is a con because if you agree then you'll probably like this writing -
which is the cover design - and hence the disc inside. But we've just
warned you against that. The con is a con. A good cover design could be
considered as one that gets you to buy the record, but that never actually
happens to YOU because YOU know it's just a design for the cover. And this
is the STUPID SELF-WRITING THING.
