Buying the 'Great Conversation'

JH
John Honovich
•Published Feb 29, 2016 05:00 AM

Do not feel bad if you hear the 'Great Conversation' and think of Plato, Plutarch or Shakespeare.

Sadly, a company has hijacked the 'Great Conversation' and turned it into a money making opportunity for promoting security manufacturers.

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Comments (4)
U
Undisclosed #1
•Feb 29, 2016
IPVMU Certified

"Pay for play" may be the norm, but this one features "Pay to be played" as well.

To the tune of $750 per conversationalist end-user.

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U
Undisclosed #1
•Sep 02, 2016
IPVMU Certified

"Sadly, a company has hijacked the 'Great Conversation' and turned it into a money making opportunity for promoting security manufacturers."

Hik-jacked here as well:

JH
John Honovich
•Sep 02, 2016
IPVM
In reply to Undisclosed #1

In defense of Hikvision, the event you reference promotes reading books, totally unlikely ASG's sales event.

U
Undisclosed #1
•Sep 02, 2016
IPVMU Certified
In reply to John Honovich

In defense of me, I would point out that those are Western Authors in the wings there, and that they are promoting the reading of "Classics" (according to Google translate).

From your link

The Great Conversation is a characterization of references and allusions made by authors in the Western canon to the works of their predecessors.

Of course it's nothing like ASG's sales event as far as content, I didn't mean to imply that. They only share the concept of hikjacking, by co-opting the concept into a strange setting, and Hikvision is a least really talking about classic literature.