Five reasons why it’s totally plausible blogging can give you world domination!

Okay, perhaps it's not completely realistic that we'll all get world domination by posting a couple of blogs, but hey, we're dreamers and it is plausible it can happen! We're not called World Wake Up Call because we like to sit back and do nothing. ;)

5. The Gospel According To Larry

Ah, yes, fiction, I know. We mentioned this novel in our previous blog, but it’s worth mentioning here again. The Gospel According To Larry by Janet Tashjian is a story which tells us about the very strongly opinionated and articulate teenage Josh, whose dream is to change the world. He creates his own website, a blog,  on which he writes articles under the alias “Larry” – apparently the most un-biblical name he could come up with… sounds like a challenge to me! - to rebel against mass production and consumerism among other things. Although it took until someone in the local newspaper wrote an article about him, he did eventually gain a big following – hooray, one step closer to world domination!

But unfortunately, it did take someone from a newspaper to give him a big audience, so Josh  - Larry – will have to settle for a lousy fifth place. Also, the fact that he faked his own suicide doesn’t really show his world leader attitude either.

4. Universal

Which brings us to the fourth place! Blogging, with which I mean writing articles and publishing them on the internet, is very universal. You might be a very inspiring writer and a brilliant debater, but writing a small article for page 28 of the local newspaper won’t be inspiring to anyone. On the Internet however, all you have to be able to do is promote your blog well to gain a good and universal following. One of the most perfect examples of what the universalness of the internet can achieve is Anonymous. Thankfully, blogs are usually a bit more organized and.. moderated.. than our lovely 4chan, but Anonymous’ attacks on Paypal and the Swiss bank PostFinance were pretty effective, not to mention the demonstrations against Scientology.

However, although being so universal will enable you to get a huge following, you still depend on other people to give you power, so it’s still not the best way to gain world domination.

3. Wealth
Yes, well, a huge following alone might not be enough to gain world domination, but it does earn you support from Google Adsense and other advertising sites. Now I’m not saying GoogleAdsense or support from Google in general will make you the ultimate world leader, but advertising means.. yes… money!

An anonymous blogger in his late teens managed to earn $200,000+ within one year of building his blog from scratch. Jason Calacanis, who has 120 bloggers working for him, is confident he will earn more than $1 million in Google AdSense payments over the next year. And, although we might still wish it wasn’t so, money gets you very far in this world. 

2. Searching for Answers – the Power of Knowledge!

Some time ago, typing in ‘Holocaust’ in Google – oh no, mentioning Google twice in the quest for world domination! – lead you to a page telling you the Holocaust never really happened. Having a lot of readers on your blog gives you the power to give them false information. Imagine having most of the world as a loyal following on your blog, and you suddenly post a blog about the inside information you have on how Russia is planning to invade every European country. Chaos guaranteed!

1 . Ender’s Game

But of course, the real winner should be the fictional novel by Orson Scott Card in which two characters did really become world leaders by writing anonymously on ‘the nets’ – and they were teens! Funnily enough, this book was written before the internet actually existed. This book shortly tells how the brother and sister of the main character start writing articles and essays on ‘the nets’, and in the following books it is revealed that, while the sister went off to space, the brother actually did become ‘Hegemon’, their word for world leader, and reunited the world after his essays stopped a couple of wars.