I have no favorites but if I did

Who are your current most favorite people?

I have no favorites but if I did, I’d nominate Andrew and Tristan Tate or Vladimir Putin.

I know, I know how odd is that, right?!

In the past, I actually held Jordan Peterson in very high esteem.

The problem with playing favorites, even in your inner circle like your family, is that one tends to put them on a pedestal, from which there’s only one move left for them: going down.

Since sculptures are known to be heavier than air, and cannot ascend, they can only go down, both figuratively as well as literally. And that’s bad for everyone involved. For your favorites may not have desired to be placed on a mantle. And yet, when you put them there, you wrong them.

Anyhow, when you do that, people have an annoying tendency to disappoint you. This is stupid. And this is avoidable.

What do I mean to say? Let’s take Professor Peterson. Everyone knows him as a modern Crusader on a quest to restore responsibility in men. But how many of us know he’s opposed to direct democracy, which he calls the dictatorship of masses?

This is what made me realize I was being hasty acknowledging him as a new found Prophet. And yet, after careful consideration, and self-discovery, I see his point. Not sure if I agree but I see it.

The same principle applies to Putin and the Tate Brothers. Putin rules Russia with an iron fist and has restored it if not to her former glory but to at least a nice shiny state. He’s still an autocrat whose will is law in the Russian Federation. He’s had his reasons to act so but still there are costs, hidden or not, attached to his success.

As for the Tates, what can I say? I am partial to some if not most of their messaging. I might not have gone the same route of making $ by curating and managing video chat female influencers’ business models. But I cannot bring myself to condemn them for doing so. It’s not illegal and honestly as long as it’s consensual, it’s not immoral to sell sex illusions to other consenting adults.

If the buyers are stupid enough to want to consume the pipe dreams these scantily clad ladies of the night sell, the only thing that’s hurt here are the consumers’ naive expectations… and delusions.

Personally, I’m more disappointed by the proselytism promoted by Andrew Tate than by their perceived immorality. But that’s silly old me.

In the end, this is why one should not make oneself an idol to pray to. Because all idols are false.

Just don’t do it.