Yeah but you don't wanna give everybody the impression their gonna be respected and valued posthumously or that that's what they should wager their life on. Peo

Yeah but you don't wanna give everybody the impression their gonna be respected and valued posthumously or that that's what they should wager their life on. People can do other life works, there doesn't have to be one, its okay not to write the Big Book you wanted to write. Also, I dislike the appeal to "independent intellectuals": so-called intellectuals should be conferring with others more often if they truly trust what's in their head, that's generally what the history of philosophy and science is, people conferring with one another, even across time.