Illegitimacy of professionals

Fascinating how important legitimacy is – there are so many pseudo- specialists in anything around, - people that have just talked about things and never realized not a single project from A to Z, projects that have dealt with real people, real lives. Talking house is all over the place [and not only in the area of CSR]. So many people that are not interested in other people’s well-being but in own success, career and pushing the boundaries to own happiness no matter what.
I have learned for myself that before you praise anyone, you need to ask people who worked with the person under consideration, and people who supposedly benefited from this person’s work. And the last source of trust would be media – with journalists hungry for lavish receptions and easy articles and who do not care about the topics themselves.
And to finish on legitimacy – it also comes from the ability of a person to embrace areas of human activities other than his/her own – there are so many specialists in such specific narrow areas but totally useless in anything that lays outside their area of comfort. Being specialist is excellent but to ignore developments in other, often efficiency-enhancing, areas of human activity is at par with ignorance and even certain arrogance. And it definitely becomes a fertile ground for hypocrisy.
There are certain individuals who are willing to accept own illegitimacy, commanding humbleness. Such people generally are open to people, willing listeners and accept opinion of others. And this makes them great partners for intellectually-charged conversation.
But unfortunately there is such a minority of truly legitimate people that sometimes I wonder if so called “developed world” is not in fact an “imagined world with faked identities”, a cluster of brands covering the true stories of life how it is?