The New Ages Of Arts & Entertainment

When people ask me about my “Zen Of Niche” articles, they often ask me what I am trying to accomplish. After all, I am human, not a saint, and I do have an agenda. I think the difference between the so-called “Internet Gurus” and me, is that I reveal my agenda. I’m not the only one. I have seen many excellent writers here at Ezinearticles.com who understand the spirit behind the Internet.

And the spirit of the invention of the Internet is very anti-heirachy, very anti downline, very anti-anything in which one person has more information than the other and can “become their boss because of it” with virtually no rules or regulations, no regulatory committee looking over their shoulders, in other words, if you “fall in love” with an “Internet Guru”, you are pretty much at their mercy.

The days of “gurus” are over…..WAY over. That was the seventies and part of the eighties. The ones who still try to hang on to that handle make me laugh in so many ways. All one has to do is look at the real facts. Does Bill Gates call himself a guru? How about Michael Dell or Warren Buffett? I don’t think so. Do you know any Internet gurus who come close to making their kind of income. Anyone of those three men could buy them out with the stroke of a pen. Get my point?

Gates, Dell, Buffett, and others know the real game. Offer something of value for money. And you don’t see them selling repetitive e-books on their sites. And even if one day one decided to, they certainly wouldn’t write one (like all the others do) gathering information free off the net and then selling it.

Wait, Donald Trump once wrote a book, “The Art Of The Deal” that brought him a good amount of money; allegedly he was dodging bankruptcy. I was not there, cannot prove it, but read the book and all of it was information available on the web plus smothered by the gratuitous Trump-ego (yes Trump invented anything in business that is innovative according to The Donald himself). He is still in business so it must have worked. But I bet his philosophy to do it did not come from “How To Win Friends And Influence People”. You see, Trump was still considered a “God-man” before the Internet by many. So were a lot of other moguls. But that is because when they discovered information they quickly put it in their “vaults” so that nobody else could have access to it.

In 1969, a sophomore at Stanford named Vint Cerf, now Dr. Vinton Cerf, invented TCP-IP, now known as the Internet. In 1984, an MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, the software that drives the Internet and makes it much more user-friendly.

Dr. Cerf wanted information available for everybody. He was a bit iconoclastic and anti-guru, I can imagine, and that is what started the whole information highway movement. The Pentagon first bought TCP-IP and for years it remained Arapnet, not available to the public. Dr. Cerf approached a young Tennessee Congressman (not yet a senator) named Albert Gore who pushed the bill through to make it available to the public. (Congress was not so happy). Suddenly the “heirachy” was gone and it almost got voted down. So the Gore/Internet story is no fable. He was persistent and that is why we are here discussing this (I’m independent by the way and vote for the person, not the party, but I believe in giving credit where credit is due).

If you are still living in a time in which you think people who distribute ebooks, MLM opportunities, or any other schemes are “Top Dogs”, I have some news for you. The information now available on the Internet is more dramatic and wider in scope than the beginning of the Civil War, which would soon determine of our nation would be an industrial or agricultural-driven economy (yes, slavery had plenty to do with that war) but it was not the only issue.

Don’t live in the dark ages. Don’t follow “the gurus”. Even the Dali Llama says “I’m no guru, I’m just a man. You are just as much of a guru as I am. I may have found out some information before you did, but I’m no guru.”

And if he’s no guru, how can some man or woman in their bathrobes hiding behind a computer purveying e-books be a guru who is going to delivery you to economic freedom?

Rick London is a writer, internet store owner, cartoonist, inventor, and full time business student (return to school adult). He founded the world-famous Londons Times Cartoons and a number of stores with LT image products such as http://www.ricklondonwear.com

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