It sometimes it happens to the nicest of people and it often happens slowly and subtly. These are some of the signs that you are becoming indoctrinated and you are likely annoying your friends and loved ones at this point. It may not be apparent right away but the change occurs and eventuall becomes noticable to those who know you. I hope this helps:
*You're driven to recruit everyone you know. You may even resort to deception or outright lies to get people to meetings. Before you know it, your family and friends avoid you like the plague. You end up spending time at malls and other public placse scouting for recruits. You almost become phony in talking to people and feigning interest in other people and their interests.
You're encouraged to develop an unreasonable, irrational zeal for the products. Even so far as to justify the quality of toilet paper or to call the products prestigious. You may even argue the quality of energy drinks or about phytonutrients, something you may not even know about.
A whole bunch of demands, promises, subtle threats of failure if you don't try hard enough are made in the promotional material and motivational seminars. i.e. If you quit, you are a loser destined to die broke and unhappy. Or you let someone steal your dream. These ridiculous claims are how your upline keeps you hooked.
Because the system is touted as the way you're going to make yourself fantastically rich, you're under pressure to drop any conflicting or competing interests such as your bowling league or golf club. Nothing else in life has importance except for the quest of financial freedom. All activities in your life must enhance your Amway business and have an affect on your financial future. No ther activities matter to you unless it affects your financial future. Even family and friends may be shunned in your quest for the holy financial grail.
Your upline soon becomes your most trusted friend. Your thoughts and feelings are shaped in part by the cds, meetings and functions. People who you may have trusted all your life suddenly becomes secondary in your life because of your undying loyalty to your upline.
Do you recognize these behaviors? Hopefully you aren't displaying these behaviors
*You're driven to recruit everyone you know. You may even resort to deception or outright lies to get people to meetings. Before you know it, your family and friends avoid you like the plague. You end up spending time at malls and other public placse scouting for recruits. You almost become phony in talking to people and feigning interest in other people and their interests.
You're encouraged to develop an unreasonable, irrational zeal for the products. Even so far as to justify the quality of toilet paper or to call the products prestigious. You may even argue the quality of energy drinks or about phytonutrients, something you may not even know about.
A whole bunch of demands, promises, subtle threats of failure if you don't try hard enough are made in the promotional material and motivational seminars. i.e. If you quit, you are a loser destined to die broke and unhappy. Or you let someone steal your dream. These ridiculous claims are how your upline keeps you hooked.
Because the system is touted as the way you're going to make yourself fantastically rich, you're under pressure to drop any conflicting or competing interests such as your bowling league or golf club. Nothing else in life has importance except for the quest of financial freedom. All activities in your life must enhance your Amway business and have an affect on your financial future. No ther activities matter to you unless it affects your financial future. Even family and friends may be shunned in your quest for the holy financial grail.
Your upline soon becomes your most trusted friend. Your thoughts and feelings are shaped in part by the cds, meetings and functions. People who you may have trusted all your life suddenly becomes secondary in your life because of your undying loyalty to your upline.
Do you recognize these behaviors? Hopefully you aren't displaying these behaviors
Amway does create zombies -- persons who have essentially sacrificed a large part of their basic humanity and intelligence to become fanatical zealots for a cause.
ReplyDeleteAnd what cause is that? Selling the utterly ordinary and unimportant products of the Amway corporation. It's one thing to be a fanatic for a religion or a political movement or some reformist agenda. But to be a fanatic for soap-suds and energy drinks? That's too contemptible for words.
It's also quite ironic that Amway freaks will defend their products violently, with all kinds of absurd claims and arguments about "quality" and "concentrated strength" and "prestige" (what the hell is a "prestige" toilet paper?) But in fact, the dirty secret about Amway is that the products don't really matter at all. Persons outside of Amway don't buy them, certainly not at a competitive level with big-brand products. The actual source of profit in Amway comes from recruitment of down-line, and the brainwashing of down-line to load up on inventory, and to purchase tools and function tickets. The Amway "products" are just a cover. Most are self-consumed by IBOs.
And yes -- the zombies in Amway are expected to change their lives utterly, to wreck their existing relationships, and to alienate their friends and family, solely to push the Amway business with relentless, fanatical energy. Amway is evil.
Great comment. Yes, arguing the quality of toothpaste or toilet paper is over the top but something that Amway zombies will engage in. In the past, I even received death threats on this blog from some apparently upset Amway zealots. How far will the zombies go to defend a business that is losing money for them? LOL
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