Completely agree. A lot of movements or corporations set up for the advancement of solutions to real problems, as well as the people in them, end up turning into an institution predicated on complaining about the problem and usurping sympathy, and profiting only from that rather than from results. Charities, revolutionary movements, and libertarian leaning political parties often follow this arc.
Many grassroots intellectual figures who start with some great insight that has great results, like that personal development stuff, end up in a state of arrested development and uselessness, except as a Schelling point for further intellectual discussion and the marketplace of ideas. Whether and to what degree their followers or casual listeners progress beyond them becomes the primary determinant of progress. Not all intellectuals follow such an arc into stagnation or, worse, derangement, but it is very common due to the way most people are not willing to put an idea to the test before believing it.
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