But every now and then, a couple of messages come in that really irk me. These messages tell me how wrong I am about something I reviewed, which is fine — but they come from people who have *never even tried the product.*
The issue is not about the product so much as it is about the "hook". The hook is making controversy over something that will get high visibility - for both the basher and pogue.
The lack of an entrance fee does not necessarily constitued "free" - it only means that a different market mechanism is compensating for the fee not contributed by the user - namely advertising.
The irony of this is that old “beliefs systems” are based on a philosophy of scarcity rather than abundance.
The notion of "irony" presupposes that there is an in group that knowlingly is mstating a statement so as to mock those that are not in the in group. So the only way your statement could be be ironic is that those in the in group use the term to really mean their is no scarcity.
Blinded
by old beliefs those that continue to try and contain and control will
loose to those that leverage free for greater value for a larger market
of people willing and wanting to participate in the new “philosophy”.
What is this "new" philosophy? If the point you are suggest is the antheis to "contorl" that would discribe anchchism - which is fairly old. In fact I would suggest that you read Robert Paul Wolff's "In Defense of Anarchism" published in 1970. Much of is an out growth of the Romantic period that dates back into the 16th Centry or if you want to back even further there is Sophist of the Third Centry BC.
Business Schools are a very recent form of eduction. Divinity schools have been around for centries and yes - they were concerned with belief systems or dogma
I'm what my handle states - an Oldude. The problem with this acknowledgment is my thinking and ambitions have not quite got the message of my "oldness". My practice is focused on building reputation for leaders and organizations and my rant is about how to improve long term happiness.