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P and I have had many discussions about the challenges of coming up with a hot business need that hasn’t been so totally already "done". One such unmet need which made it’s two local owners into millionares was a Netflix for pornography. Brilliance is oft described as what comes from something that seems totally obvious once it’s out, and yet is innovative. So the dudes who came up with home delivered titillation were meeting this vast need, that people would pay for. Elementary.
"Why didn’t I think of that!", P said…then we had to get into discussion about whether I would have permitted such an exploitative business anyhow.
Debatable. Yet, as I have had to explain numerous times over these years, being "political" and "feminist" is hardly synonymous with "asexual". Quite the contrary I would say.
In the paper I came upon yet another "so obvious" business endeavor:
Alibi network.
http://www.alibinetwork.com/index.jsp
and in action on CSI: (addressing some obvious moral quandaries and the ample space for abuse of alibi network)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWk88RRtBM
My reactions to this business vacillate wildly from being totally entertained, funny ha-ha, disapproving, totally creeped out, to admiring from a business acumen perspective. And maybe a tad paranoid.
So this is what it’s come to.
Well, heck, why can’t us common folks call upon an entire staff of people to blatantly lie and cover up for us? We all know damned straight that every one of our political figureheads (I simply can not muster the wit to refer to them as "leaders") has had this service since the dawn of time. I am sure the Empress dowager and Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth had folks running static for them on a regular basis.
THIS is a service people want and need.
I mean, admit it, as a grown up, doesn’t it completely suck that there is no one like Mom or Dad now to call the office and excuse you from school?? Wouldn’t it be great to hire your own personal version of swiftboat "veterans" to obfuscate the inconvenient truths which complicate your life?!
Apparently membership is split 50/50 between men and women. All the more evidence of what we social scientists already know, that women in power are just as ruthless and conniving as men in power.
I doubt this could work for me, I’m a terrible liar, and even an entire paid staff could not remedy that…unless they were acting coaches. I am admittedly SO tempted to hire an Alibi network actor to come barging into my workplace with a fibbed emergency, but I honestly don’t think I could manage a straight face once he showed up! It would feel too much like having making my friend call my parents answerign machine to leave a "parental Ok" message when I was in High school! (then again, P states that lately the adult working world is resembling high school more and more and I think he has a point.) But perhaps this could be handy one day to act like we are on a business trip when in fact, P and I will be browning ourselves on another Central American shore.
So as if we in this day and age do not have sufficient crapola going on to render us paranoid and suspicious, then let me add alibi network to the list. In addition to the second family your loved one may have in the world of Second Life, and the TSA logging the contents of all your luggage, scammers and phishers besieging you, and the fact that we all star in surveillance cameras on a daily basis, now you have more reasons to question your rather tenuous grasp on reality. There may be fake businesses calling you and staged faxes, fake employers, and secret shoppers lurking about…
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