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<\/p>\nCan you read this?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It came this morning in a piece of spam from Inman “news.”<\/p>\n
Spam — unsolicited commercial email from vendorslut central.<\/p>\n
And: Spam with FUD, InmanStyle: “If you can afford to ignore breaking real estate news and emerging technology trends, then Unsubscribe.”<\/p>\n
That’s creepy, sleazy, slimy and repugnant — which is to say it’s marketing as someone from Brad Inman’s epoch understands it. Like all the relics Inman “news” tries to shove down our throats, Bran Inman is a dinosaur — a giant, thrashing reptile incapable of discovering his own irrelevance. Holding someone like him to Web 2.0 standards of behavior is like expecting an actual dinosaur to regulate its own body temperature — it’s more than he can ever do.<\/p>\n
But remember that Inman “news” is now allegedly run by people from “our” world.<\/p>\n
Do you wish to claim that they don’t know what spam is?<\/p>\n
Is it your contention that they don’t know what FUD is?<\/p>\n
Evil is doing something you know in advance is wrong. Is there anyone who believes they didn’t know that issuing this treacly piece of spam was morally wrong by standards they understood perfectly well, in advance of their acting?<\/p>\n
I’ve been telling<\/a> you<\/a> this<\/a> for a long time, but, sadly, we could not have asked for a more telling example:<\/p>\n When exponents of the vendorslut cesspool — Inman, vendors, the NAR — tell us they want to be a part of our<\/em> world — what they always<\/em> mean is that they want to suck us into their<\/em> sewer of lies.<\/p>\n The things we call surprises almost always result from our failure to pay attention to stone obvious manifestations of reality occurring right before our eyes.<\/p>\n My advice, always: Mind what goes into your mind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can you read this? It came this morning in a piece of spam from Inman “news.” Spam — unsolicited commercial email from vendorslut central. And: Spam with FUD, InmanStyle: “If you can afford to ignore breaking real estate news and emerging technology trends, then Unsubscribe.” That’s creepy, sleazy, slimy and repugnant — which is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29,174],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-inmanically-incorrect","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7731,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7731\/the-inman-prayer-deliver-us-not-into-deliberation-and-tempt-us-not-into-leadership-for-ass-licking-for-lucre-is-the-kingdom-the-power-and-the-glory-forever-and-ever-amen\/","url_meta":{"origin":6172,"position":0},"title":"The Inman Prayer: “Deliver us not into deliberation and tempt us not into leadership, for ass-licking for lucre is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, amen…”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"You just can't make this stuff up:Inman News is launching a new feature: Real Estate Product Reviews. 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