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 More options Sep 11 1998, 3:00 am
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From: esumer...@aol.com (ESumerlin)
Date: 1998/09/11
Subject: Re: Landmark sues Elle Magazine press release
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In article <6sh5nl$ne...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dhch...@inlink.com writes:
>>      According to Schreiber, Mahoney took The Landmark Forum, Landmark's
>> primary educational program, and wrote an article for the September issue
>of
>> Elle that asserted that The Landmark Forum was an elaborate pyramid scheme.

>actually they said..

>"On the other hand, the sort of overzealous efforts
>Landmark volunteers tend to display on the corporations behalf are precisely
>what disturbs skeptics, many of whom feel that the Forum is a mass-marketing
>pyramid scheme, trafficking in subtly coercive thought reform and bent on
>ensnaring the weak of character in a slick web of palliative jargon."

I could be called a skeptic of Landmark and I think LEC, which includes
the Forum, uses a "mass-marketing pyramid scheme" to obtain participants.
Elle, by all means count my vote in your defense.  However, I can't agree
that they target the weak of character.  I think everyone is susceptible.

In my opinion, instead of monetary remuneration, the lower level(s) of the
pyramid are compensated for bringing in new recruits by being "promoted"
to "higher level" unpaid jobs with a miniscule chance of being invited on
staff.

It was nice that LEC issued the press release.  Now go back and
(re)read the 1993 Self Magazine article for which LEC sued.  Or perhaps
the Employee Assistance article.  Or the Guidepost one.  Or . . .
All those lawsuits that went on but were/are hard to find out about.  I would
really like to see the whole list of actual suits as well as everyone that
got the "letter".


 
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