This document discusses various scams and deceptions that are prevalent in modern society. It notes that the internet has enabled new opportunities for scams through shadowy deals online. Additionally, it says that religions have modified truths for greed and profit. The food industry promotes unhealthy sugars and artificial sweeteners to trick consumers. Fortune telling and targeting the elderly are other common scams. The most insidious scams involve deceiving oneself through desires masquerading as love. Self-deception is passed down through generations as people ignore truths that could bring more joy.

1. Bamboozled & Snookered
July 24, 2010
...Or Hoodwinked! This is the era of ʻthe scamʼ! The advent of the internet
has provided opportunities of shadowboxing with minds under the guise
of a good deal that ends up being pure deception like never before. Also,
on the positive side, deceptions of the ages, like in religions, are slowly
being exposed. Truth is something thatʼs been modified, like our seeds for
food, largely for greed and profit at the uncared about expense of the apathetic and purveyors of
least resistance.
Itʼs no longer just the ʻused car salesmanʼ selling lemons, but the ʻsugar peopleʼ are suggesting
sweetening the deal with not only unhealthy sugars but offshoots no longer called ʻaspartameʼ to
trick the mind with cons like ʻlow fat and dietaryʼ as the world wonders why itʼs getting fatter
inspite of billions spent on weight loss scams. Truth has become a ʻlemonʼ and as rare as
common sense is no longer so common. Gosh, maybe itʼs wake up time before the
clock strikes midnight.
Just finished a book by the author Jack Olsen on Gypsy
scams. Of course, fortune tellers are dotted around every city
to pull in the gullible for money and to access the potential of
future scamming the vulnerable from their life savings. As the
post WW 11 babies retire and age with more money than their
parents could imagine they will be joined by aging yuppies by
the millions to be palpable victims of ʻsnookeringʼ the elderly
out of their savings. The ʻgypsyʼ techniques are becoming
ʻmainstreamʼ by con artists the world over not to mention
governments and there thirst for putting taxes on the ʻdeadʼs
savingsʼ called inheritance taxes.
The most insidious scams or self hoodwinks that are covertly
hidden in plain sight through greed, lust, neediness or whatever one might call the
desires of the biological urge that masquerades as ʻloveʼ but ends up being another lemon.
People by the billions are worshipping a god that they have no idea how to define while
deceiving themselves out of really knowing who they really are. Self deception is seemingly
hardwired into humanity and passed on to generation after generation. The tools of self love and
awareness gather dust as man muddles through everything imaginable to support his fantasies
while ignoring the truths that bring far more joy and bliss than the ʻsubstitute
sugars of deceptionʼ. Truths trump lies!
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