thats the sneaky thing about it. anyone that has an undue following is a "eceleb" (or what ever we will call them 10 years from now, etc) id throw every politician into that category too. if there are a measurable amount of people who do not know a person but look toward them as a leader. the problem is with both that "leader" and the followers, the followers yield to that leader their purpose in life (go to them for how they should think/live) and the leader takes advantage of that which invariably becomes a dark thing. which we have seen play out time and again. theres a lot of esoterics involved in this which i am not trying to get into because that just overcomplicates it. role models are good but a man who has no business being a persons role model shouldnt be their role model and if he is put in that position all parties involved become corrupted in some way, it is when the followers start noticing and reject that "role model" that they recover from it, but unfortunately many fail to learn the lesson and simply look for the next "celebrity" to cling to.
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