The Yellow Brick Road: Adventures in Yuwie-land 0-3

0-3 Letter from a friend - oh boy!

Learn about Yuwie here. Read the previous Yellow Brick Road post here. OR read my initial thoughts about Yuwie here.

Below, some music for the right mood: Ease on Down the Road from The Wiz with Diana Ross and a younger, less controversial Michael Jackson.

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Letter from a Friend Regarding Yuwie (slighlty edited)

Stan,

Yuwie’s about hope! It’s about hope for me and mine and lot of good peeps you know around here, you know. Could be about hope for a lot more people than you or I can imagine when you are writing and thinking high in your fancy, palace-like office in Bucharest. Yuwie’s about me believing there’s some kind of chance to make it through the roughest times we did see. We’ve done it before. You know, we’re tough as nails. We’re gonna do it again and again until we don’t have to no more. If it takes one year or two years like you said, I don’t care! Oh well, I do hope you’re wrong. I know you ain’t wrong much, but “sometimes” you are “mistaken” every now and then. I can count them on one hand, you know. Could be, two. That’s why I hope you are “mistaken” again this time. Don’t you be mad at me for this hope. I know how you get! Stubborn, obstinate mad about the possibility of being mistaken, wasting your time and making mistakes - you want to forget that there’s this messy, fun side of being human. Can’t be human without it.

Understand me, you know. I gotta do something that gives me hope that one day, things will work out, that ends will meet and that that Damakleez (ms?) sword is removed from hanging over our heads on a thread. Over our hearts. If you know a better way that I can do something from home when the kids are at school or sleeping. Tell me! If you don’t have a better idea, get on the bus and tell the driver where to go. Do you remember that you told me that getting a computer and internet was the right thing. You told me that it’s going to change my life. Yes. It did. It opened Jeff and my minds. Our map of the world and ideas got bigger. I think you called it “weltanschauung.” Its a big word, I know how you like them. But I need a bigger change. Something I can feel. Something I can feel like a big, big sigh of relief because something good is finally going to happen, you know. Do you get me?

The recession ain’t just a scary news headline like it’s for you! It ain’t just an intellectual’s “problematic” for you to think about while your sipping your cafe-o-lays or whatever you call them. Whatever name that sell-out media gives to the problem, it’s a problem that our family has to live with: higher prices at the gas pump, grocery store and just about everywhere else. Everything’s more expensive! But ain’t like we’re making more money. Ain’t like we can either, you know. Jeff’s already working 40 hours of overtime per week and hes taking anything he can pick up on the side. We’re going to lose the house if its to keep on going like this another six months. Get on the bus!

So you were right about how bad things would get: unemployment up, pay down, prices up, access to credit down, gas up, gold up, stock market down and the value of a dollar going down down down. I hoped you’d be wrong about these things. What’s that Romanian word for “things”? Chestie? Nevermind. How do you say it when experts or others are “mistaken”? “Hasty conclusion”? Or something like that? I know you’re not glad the “problematic” came out jus like you said it would. I know that must be hard on that big compassionate heart of yours when you’re right about something bad happening and real people you know get hurt and you don’t feel like there is anything you can do about it. It’s not something you can gloat on, I know. God’s gifts are stranger than fiction! You know that better than me. This time, you do something about it! Get on the bus!

This time you don’t have to sit there, being a helpless sympathetic far, far away, commiserating with me on my problems in the email and do nothing. Do the right thing. Help me and others figure out Yuwie and how to make money on it. Yuwie doesn’t guarantee people will make any kind of money. So! They don’t promise anything to anyone in the small print, you know. So. But Yuwie got a hard-coded system that is designed to pay out. The way I see it we only need some bright guys to put their heads together and figure out how to get that pay out without breaking Yuwie’s rules. Like they say, keep it simple, stupid. You have to figure out how we can get the payout because the system can’t not give it to us. Are you in or are you out? Surprise. You have no choice. Your in. I just signed you up. If you call yourself, my friend, that is. Get on the bus and tell the driver where we going.

This time I’ll prove that your “very much mistaken” (another expression that you like to say) about Yuwie. If you still call yourself my friend, you will help me prove you, “in fact”, were “mistaken”. Ain’t that jus deserts! As I view you, you need to laugh at yourself more and this is going to help you develop a real sense of humor. Not that cynical, almost-British, bloodless sarcasm that you think is a sense of humor. Its ironic that you hate London when I can see that you would be so at home there, you know. Back to what I was saying. If you’re half as intelligent as I think you are, you’re gonna figure out how honest people like me can make an honest living on Yuwie. It doesn’t make sense that there’s no way that most people can’t make more than $20/month like you were saying. So if a week’s not enough time and you need time to think it our, take two weeks. If you need it, take more time. I know you’re not feeling well and it could be that your a little scared that your time may be coming, but I know God is going to use you to do more things. I have no doubt. Jus don’t overwork yourself on this. Take care of yourself, you hear! “Somehow” I know you do never take care of yourself and my words are wasted on your eyes. If its about your health, I know I’m wasting my words unless I’m talking to Nicole. What’s her email, again? And Yuwie? Jus figure it out.

Yellow brick road! YELLOW BRICK ROAD! I’ll give you a yellow brick in the head !&^%$@)*@^! ^^!~*&^A^!

Oh yeah, I got your note asking if it was going to be ok with me that you include more of our “correspondence” in your blog. All I got to say is don’t you dare mention my name in blog posts of any kind, anywhere or I’ll beat you double silly the next time you try to come around here, you hear? If it helps you, it’s ok for you to use what I wrote. No name. No city. No date. Never. No matter what. No matter whom. Or your dead. “Really. Really…” dead. Oh, I almost forgot to mention how I liked how you edited my email to you. If you have time, fix this one too. Spell check it. I know you got no time for that nonsense. HAhaha! Jus do it, you know. My friend Sally didn’t believe that I had wrote the last email after your edits. You’re good. You’re also a good Man. Do you know I pray for you? Not a lot of good men out there in the world that have the power to make things happen. Your one of them. Here comes my very much relished opportunity to quote Booker to YOU for once…

“Keep on keeping on.”

Yours truly,

[author's name omitted at the author's request]

Learn about Yuwie here. Read the previous Yellow Brick Road post here. OR read my initial thoughts about Yuwie here.

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Mr. Faryna is the founder and co-founder of several technology, design and communication companies in the United States and Europe including Faryna & Associates, Inc., Halo Interactive, and others.

Stan Faryna is also a Global Voices author and translator. Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.

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Mr. Faryna also served as editor-in-chief of Black and Right (Praeger Press, 1996), a landmark collection of socio-political essays by important American thinkers including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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