[mgreenleaf]

Most philosophies get badly diluted and warped after they get placed into a wider audience. A lot of good ideas come from a small group of competent individuals who have experience and think deeply about how they could improve things; but a major reason why so much of the world is still so dysfunctional is because so many people don't think deeply or carefully about what they are doing. So when a good idea comes along, they commit the old mistake of jumping on the bandwagon without deeply imbibing the real reasoning behind it, but that corrupts the idea over time to be a prescriptive cure. So we have fads every few years when the majority of people find out that the old silver bullet didn't work for them, and start looking for a new silver bullet-- and there is always another small group who want to improve things and write a new book with a slightly different take on how to do so.