So said the kooky Irishman Stephen in the movie Braveheart.
I got to thinking about that recently, and how those of us who grew up without an iPhone in hand or internet access while in constant fight or flight mode binging movies like Alien, Terminator, War Games, even Maximum Overdrive… tend to have a visceral distrust of machines, crypto, AI, digital products, technology, the government, and other institutions run by utter morons who have power over the populace — especially services people rely on.
And for good reason.
Marcus Gill ‘splains:
Ben,
Your view of AI is spot on.
We live in Houston, 4th largest city in America,
Harris County 3rd largest in America.
Advanced tech modern city blah blah blah..
Two weeks ago One sudden unexpected Hurricane/tornado instantly took us back to the Flintstones in less than 1 hour.
From
Uber eatz at the push of a button
To
Pitch black. No A/C in 100 degree heat.
“Sorry, cash only” everywhere if they could function.
Neighbors stuck in elevators and no traffic lights etc
ALL bc 1-2 main towers and several lines were knocked down.
Thousands of contractors flooding the streets from out of state still cannot fix it fast enough.
We have had several storms in Texas since.
The shortages are real.
so
AI ain’t a threat. Not even close.
Not knowing how to live off the land or work with your hands, or knowing the trades is.
Writing copy (by hand even) is.
Thinking like a prepper is no longer fringe here.
So keep preaching.
But alas, distrusting technology doesn’t mean not using it.
Or, in an online marketer’s case, shamelessly profiting from it.
Case in point:
We heard from several people who bought my “Email Bastard!” offer a couple weeks ago asking what cart we used for it. And, even more importantly, people wanted to know if it was our ContraCart software? (That I have been mercilessly teasing for over two years now – most recently in the Email Players Comicbook #2 I sent Email Players subscribers back in January to commemorate the newsletter’s 150th issue.) And if it was ContraCart, will it ever be for sale or am we just gonna leave them hanging forever?
It’s a fair question.
And here is my unfair answer:
Selling a cart is a gigantic, logistical, and maybe even unsustainable for our small team task to do it as a service — and so we just shelved it as an offer, and decided to just selfishly use it for our own internal use instead selling Learnistic and BerserkerMail-related offers. It always sounds like a good idea to sell ContraCart, and we know a lot of people could certainly benefit from it… until we run alll the variables involved, after which we just want to reach for the ibuprofen. But all the recently feedback did get us at least talking about it again. And it was not all that surprising to hear about the flaws in a lot of the cart software our boys & ghouls use.
So who knows?
Maybe it will happen or maybe not.
There are certainly no timeframes either way.
And even if we do, it’ll only be for sale to BerserkerMail and/or Learnistic clients.
In the meantime:
If the demand continues it’s far more likely to happen.
If not?
We’ll just use the cart for our own offers.
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Ben Settle
