Updater: Shout out to Singapore & Hong Kong
The last year of 2024 saw over 10,000 pageviews from Singapore, and 6,000 readers from Hong Kong. My book blog "XENOPHILE" is a treatise on loving all people, including our variations. But between the lines is a document on Split Bias Marketing. Nothing sells like being hated for belonging to a exclusive out group.
Boutique Parapsychology, and Alternative Medicine are perfect examples of elite targeted marketing. No one gets that I'm selling meaningful statistical profiling meshed perfectly with online cultures of trivial escapism. After the web was banned in Russia, (My only readers for the first several years) Asian Pacific readers started seeing the diplomatically safe message of tactful discretion. (Mom once said, "Snoopy people are the bane of the world and peoples concerns are for themselves only.") Esoteric traditions may seem arcane, but they are subject to precise analysis.
Prayers to a dead medium, Your Art speaks to me whether I want it to or not. What kind of books and letters did I leave myself for the future? Can I catch up again?
What? Too Much Information? The verity of every life is one.
Everyone's story is thread unwound under the eye of the universe. May my heart still love when the losses of living grace my shadowed soul.
Wash me away, sing to me in sleep.
Warm mists rise from waters peaceful stars,
And dream of shadows release.