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May 11, 2019 - 9:32 AM
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Jehannum
(Member)
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Some people seem to need a hero, and the cult of personality provides what they need. We saw it with Steve Jobs. People naturally have heroes in music, film, politics, sports, etc. and even among family and friends. It's not a fault to admire other people. The cult of personality is a different thing, maybe an unhealthy admiration. They say "never meet your heroes" and they're probably right. Our heroes are extensions of ourselves - they are the ones that confirm or champion a particular belief or understanding we have. To expect them to excel on all levels, not just the particular thing we appreciate, is a fallacy. To validate hero worship we have to accept human fallibility. I'll give a couple of examples of my "heroes": Isaac Newton (physicist) - numerology woo-tard Kate Bush (musician) - woo-tard James Clerk Maxwell (physicist) - devoutly religious Vladimir Nabokov (writer) - philosophically confused and confusing Alfred Hitchcock (director) - bully, misogynist Eric Gill (typeface artist) - incestuous paedophile rapist Hieronymus Bosch (painter) - religious fundamentalist You have to be very selective in the traits you admire in other people. Outside of fiction there is no ideal hero.
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