Am I Nuts? I like Bruce Lee.

[Astonished]

Like I keep saying, idolizing or hero-worshiping anybody is a huge fucking mistake. Never meet your heroes. Pobody's nerfect, so fuck trying to emulate a person, emulate good ideas that have no context outside themselves and no bad crap attached to them innately.

Why shouldn't you meet people you admire? I would agree not to treat them like gods sure. But never meeting them?

I've meet Dawkins, love his work, but after meeting him I came to the conclusion I would not want to hang out with him or be his friend. Our personalities are completely different and he comes off as a bit of a stuffed shirt. Met Hitchens too, I would have hung out out with him, but he was an admitted alcoholic and heavy smoker and that killed him. Met Harris, like his work too up until he starts peddling Buddhism. 

But I do get what you are saying. I used to worship Pat Benatar but that was back when I was a hormone driven ignorant teen. I did stupidly think at the time if we just met we'd be friends. Nope, that is not reality. If you are not close to someone say family or co worker or long time friend, you ultimately do not know that person and they are NOT your friend, even if you like their work. All you can say is you like their work.


Humans are just that, humans. No title, no paycheck no amount of fame will make a human perfect.

Just, don't put them on such a pedestal that finding out their dark side would devastate you. That's pretty much what it means. Your hero will become quite the villain in your eyes if you really know everything about them they'd like to hide. Not getting that heavily invested in them makes this less likely and even if you did find out their deepest darkest secrets, you wouldn't have such a high opinion of them that it would turn your world upside-down. That's why the religious are so stubborn; they can't deal with the fact that their gods are so awful, so they will not accept it. Because that's how deeply emotionally invested they get in their imaginary friends. It's fine to say, "Hey, that guy's pretty sharp, he's got lots of good ideas" or "Wow, that guy can shoot webs and stick to walls, wish I could do that" and be a fan, just don't go full fanATIC.