I don't think it'll ever die. The hero worship just changes year to year, cycle to cycle. Some people learn from it and eventually grow out of it, most won't.
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It’s just celebrity worship. Some do. Some don’t. But always will. It’s the ideas that do it for me and even then I’m happy when an idea is slain by another.
Besides.. none of these celebrity/heroes have ever split a log or planted a seed with me, so.. I remain indifferent to them.
this is exactly the attitude I would love to see more of.