Social -- and ultimately economic -- credibility is based often on who gives you the right commendation at the right time. I dont' mind -- in fact, I very much like the real, unsolicited commendations; it's the artificial and/or solicited ones that I don't like.
Soliciting commendations is like selling encyclopedias door-to-door. (I did that once when I was young. I didn't last very long.). It is likely to generate a lot of mutual discomfort and shallow word play between salesperson and resistant customer. Better to set up an encyclopedia shop somewhere -- preferrably by a school maybe -- and attend honestly to the prospective customers who actually walk into your store and have a serious interest in buying a set of encyclopedias.
Google into DGB Philosophy and/or Hegel's Hotel and I will attend to you honestly, intellectually, passionately. and hopefully inspirationally. Because I will know that if you google into Hegel's Hotel, you are probably serious about buying what I have to sell (even if it is free!) -- i.e., reading what I have to write -- which is primarily a combination of philosophy, psychology, with all of its extensions into life, existence, being and becoming -- and culture... dgb, May 4th, 2008.
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