Lately I have been plagued by people and organizations
popping up on my internet pages almost demanding that I listen to them -
at the same time promising the most unbelievable rewards: "Join our
list of millionaires", "Do you want to be on the first rank on Amazon"
and so on.
Now, I'm not against anyone trying to
swing a sale or two, but this is getting too much. What makes me gripe
boils down to two or three things that all have 'unprofessional' written all over them:
1.
Untrained hucksters droning on at me. (I have fallen asleep on more
than one occasion by listening to young men who are in love with their
own voices).
2.
The words being used seem to indicate a very limited vocabulary and an
almost cretin-like level of delivery. I am particularly exasperated by a
never-ending stream of:
Amazing;
and...; awesome; bunch of; cool; cool stuff; guys (for a mixed
audience); like; stuff; super; super excited; really; right; you know;
Wow. On and on it goes...
3. Then, after
suffering an hour of this, if still awake, being ushered into a clincher
(into the funnel - is the sales terminology used) e.g.:
"This
book (course, series of videos, PDFs etc.) would cost you $XXX
thousands of dollars on the open market; you are getting it here (if you
buy now) for $500."
It
is like a disease - and the more these blockheads hear their own voices
droning on, the more they seem to want to produce. Most would do well
to take their own advice - and seek a course of voice training and
projection; be made aware they are talking to many cultures when using
the web; that not everyone comes from. say, sunny Southern California!
Because of the interest of a mainline publisher, there will be a delay in bringing this book to print. Thank you for your patience.
The messages the book contains are valuable: throwing new light on
what happened in the last few years leading up to the Impeachment of Warren
Hastings; demonstrating how embedded in extraneous East India Company affairs
was the whole arraignment against him.
The book also brings to wider notice part of the illustrious career of
Laurence Sulivan, leading, hopefully to a wish among readers for greater
knowledge of what he achieved and what he stood for. In particular to make today's
generation aware of his desire for non-involvement in land ownership in India;
and of his non-racial approach to the EIC's affairs in the sub-continent. All
that he worked for in this respect was destroyed by Clive's assumption of the
Diwani after Sulivan was defeated by Clive and his associates in the Court of Directors at India House in
Leadenhall Street,London.