Can we talk about hero worship for a bit?
Everybody needs to stop that s**t. People are flawed, and worshiping heroes doesn't remove those flaws, it just makes you blind to them. Once you're blind to a part of a person, you never see them as real - you see a caricature of that person, a cartoon.
I'm seeing too many people on all sides do this to Trump, AOC, Sanders, Pelosi, even J.
People are real, people are complex, and there's good in bad in all people.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
@0x56
But please leave me Capt America
@damselfly59 - He's already a cartoon. I'll give you this exception.
(But I highly recommend reading through the late 90s comics to get a good idea of the complexity his writers gave him)
@0x56
On that Journey with my grandson. Raised my kids on comics and Dragonlance for the unequal balance. We need a little of it all to survive as a species, but with a strong moral compass.
Thats why I love it here.
Love and hate can be equally blinding.
@Minholkin - it can. But I don't see this as love. Love is a 2 way street with give and take knowing about the person as a whole, flaws and fortes.
Idolization, however, I see as a subtle poison making both the idolizer and the idol feel good, but destroying one or both by slow erosion.
Yes!
This is why I repeatedly (and probably boringly, sorry about that) exhort people not to name things (schools, military bases, parks) after people.
#wehumans are all flawed. What seems a pecadillo now may be considered a mortal sin by our future culture. Or the person idolized may just turn out to have been really good at concealing something we already consider a mortal sin.
@0x56
Truth..
And you are going to have to start charging people money for that advice...
Other wise they won’t value it.