Voting for TAJ is USELESS!!!
How easily we get taken in for gimmicks.. Here people are actually being taken for a ride and media's the one who's fully supporting and part of the HYPE! In this instance they are clear culprits in the game because the hype is created by them without due investigation or information to their viewers, if you were to see any of the 24/7 Indian news channels, you'd appreciate what I mean...
What am I ranting and raving about you may wonder.. how can this guy be against Voting to make our beloved Taj, our pride and pleasure, the dimple on the cheek of Indian tourism, the 'aakho ka tara' so to speak for us true blue Indians, you may protest! Well, well, let me have my say.. freedom of speech and all you know.. Lets start with facts... than we'll analyse them..
First of all when we talk about Voting for Seven Wonders.. the question is who's calculating the votes, who's gonna do the honors of crowning the winner, and most importantly 'BY WHAT AUTHORITY ?'
'New Seven Wonders of the world' is something like 'Miss World' of Wonders... means if there is 'Miss World' than there can be 'Miss Universe', 'Miss Galaxy' etc also, hence similarly there already exists more recent, USA TODAY's 'Seven Wonders' and more popular Wilman's Tourist Travel Seven Wonders which are as follows:
Great Pyramids of Giza
Great Wall of China
Taj Mahal
Serengeti Migration
Galápagos Islands
Grand Canyon
Machu Picchu
Which fortunately includes Taj Mahal.
So now along comes Mr. Bernard Weber who decides to make some money out of this wonders game. He sets up a corporation, New Open World Corporation (NOWC) which could as well have been named 'Donate some money for cheap piece of paper and some hype.com' for all I care. It's a FOR PROFIT corporation out to make some money by creating a hype about 'New Seven Wonders'... So far so good.. whats there to gripe about than... Lets see :
a. It is a competition that encourages rigging.. infact its in the rules.. you pay you give a vote.. more you pay , more votes you have!! Checkout the site if you don't believe me.
b. They take your validated details and email address and leave out the bit about not selling the database to spamming groups for commercial purpose. Not that bad too eh?
c. Make u sms the votes and make money out of that.
but all this really doesn't rankle.. after all given that its a commercial competition, lets all of us patriotic, Taj loving Indians, put money where our mouth is and pay up to be on top.. So what if it means donating to some rich Swiss guys! Anything for Amchi TAJ... but no.. that's not it at all..
The problem is as follows:
NOWC "reserves the right at its absolute discretion to exclude [any] votes" that are cast for the competition. This is part of their terms and conditions....
What does this mean.. it means regardless of how many people around the world vote for which wonder, in the end, NOWC will use these same commercial interests to make a list of their CHOOSING!!!
FOLKS WAKE UP!!
Your votes are of no USE.. Of no consequence.. If they want the Taj on their list of wonders, because lets face it, 'it really is a wonder after all!' than its gonna be there regardless.. And why would they want it ? because if they have it there, than their associated tourist tie ups, branding and souvenirs make money!!... Lets face it.. there are more Indians than most other people around the world.. So how can they not have TAJ there !
The flip side? Wanna see how right I am? Checkout the status of Pyramids of Giza.. Egyptians strongly protested the competition saying that Pyramids at Giza were no doubt a wonder and this guy was out to exploit wonders of world, and was looking to out Pyramids from the list. The result, Pyramids of Giza is permanent special listing for the competition. A default wonder.
So folks, we're not voting for Seven Wonders, as the competition says, we're infact voting for Six!!!!
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