Nothing because my “heroes” are virtuous, prosocial men who are all dead and gave their lives for the greater good (and I also never expected them to be perfect because they are people after all).
Like, if your hero is a baseball player or a showbiz person, that’s on you and your weird thinking, and I don’t know why you’d pick that. I LOOOOOOVE Kanye’s music but the man is fully mentally gone and even before he wasn’t anywhere close to righteous enough for me to consider him my “hero”, lol.
I think idolizing entertainers/athletes is weird one only thinks their public persona (or worse, the characters they play on film) are their selves. I also think that should an entertainer want to have a right to a private life, that’s also their right. I grew up in Sun Valley, Idaho and later worked in the music industry, so I got a front row to dealing with every aspect of ego vs image vs myth vs this is actually a real person, same as any other. I don’t get the veneration of entertainers as “I want to be like them”, but I get why people can get caught up in that. I also have an appreciation for people that become a public figure because of their talent and then use their celebrity to platform noble causes and use the wealth they gained to give back. George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher is the prime example of this. Sings for one of the most brutal death metal bands in history; devoted husband and family man who loves claw machine games and donates his winnings to children’s hospitals. Sometimes it is fun to meet your “heroes”, the dude’s a teddy bear and a nerd.
Nothing because my “heroes” are virtuous, prosocial men who are all dead and gave their lives for the greater good (and I also never expected them to be perfect because they are people after all).
Like, if your hero is a baseball player or a showbiz person, that’s on you and your weird thinking, and I don’t know why you’d pick that. I LOOOOOOVE Kanye’s music but the man is fully mentally gone and even before he wasn’t anywhere close to righteous enough for me to consider him my “hero”, lol.
I think idolizing entertainers/athletes is weird one only thinks their public persona (or worse, the characters they play on film) are their selves. I also think that should an entertainer want to have a right to a private life, that’s also their right. I grew up in Sun Valley, Idaho and later worked in the music industry, so I got a front row to dealing with every aspect of ego vs image vs myth vs this is actually a real person, same as any other. I don’t get the veneration of entertainers as “I want to be like them”, but I get why people can get caught up in that. I also have an appreciation for people that become a public figure because of their talent and then use their celebrity to platform noble causes and use the wealth they gained to give back. George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher is the prime example of this. Sings for one of the most brutal death metal bands in history; devoted husband and family man who loves claw machine games and donates his winnings to children’s hospitals. Sometimes it is fun to meet your “heroes”, the dude’s a teddy bear and a nerd.