When are they going to develop a vaccine for the ACN virus?
I think it's more dangerous than H1N1.

A memetic virus, thrives on finding people who have no passion in life so the attractor being wealth for no apparent cause. A sense of fulfillment gained through dangling the proverbial carrot in front of someones nose promising freedom. If one has no preoccupation of passion in life, than multi-level marketing schemes like ACN are very appropriate in creating a sense of self-worth. Religion works on a similar premise.

You have a set of principles, ideals and you set out to proselytize them because they are 'right'. It works on the classic dynamic of herd mentality. It's old. Am I the only one who believes this? Let's build cultural identity in a new way and curb these archaic forms of proselytization. The higher the membership of any social group, the greater power and wealth that can be generated. The only thing worse than a bible thumper is a bible thumper who think that his work ethic is related to directly to God. Hard work has nothing to do with your 'calling' or your personal salvation. The Calvinist's really fucked things up -- it really wasn't a brilliant idea to 'reform' something that was already deformed to begin with.

It's all based on using your herd as a crutch - creating a cultural group who can give you constant validation. Here is an idea - instead of taking the same idea of getting down on your knees to suck the dick of some metaphysical entity every sabbath, let's stop back and take a look at how human behavior manifests itself in group dynamics and realize that we just keep modifying the SAME thing through time -- we really aren't changing anything but from Abraham, to Jesus, to Mohammed, and whatever prophet comes next. Let's severe the line now.