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I wonder if one day as a society we'll be able to accept again that humans are flawed, and often the most popular are the most flawed. That's not to excuse what
by Zababa 5y ago
I wonder if one day as a society we'll be able to accept again that humans are flawed, and often the most popular are the most flawed. That's not to excuse what he's done or anything like that, but we can still find some interesting things or a bit of peace in his words. The "huge caveat" you talk about applies to pretty much everyone.
- pessimizer 5y agoI don't think the world refuses to believe that humans can be flawed. That's the opposite of the problem with hero-worship. The problem with hero worship is that we disregard and apologize for our heroes' flaws when we wouldn't do that for the person sitting next to us.
- Zababa 5y ago> The problem with hero worship is that we disregard and apologize for our heroes' flaws when we wouldn't do that for the person sitting next to us. Isn't that basically "refusing to believe that humans can be flawed"? We apply different standards to "heroes" and to regular human beings, while they are both regular human beings.