It’s bad when we overwhelmingly agree someone is great and then shower them with praise, money, etc. and protect them from deserved criticism. We then elevate not the best people to positions of extreme power
Nobody here is protecting him from deserved criticism. And nobody "showered him with money" because they thought he was nice. People paid money for music and concert experiences
Actually plenty of folks in the comments are catching bullets for him for no reason. Dude cheated on his wife, which is objectively shitty. He has also benefited and profited from his positive rep over all these years. Nothing exists in a vaccuum and your argument is not only stupid, it's made in bad faith. Byee.
Nothing exists in a vaccuum and your argument is not only stupid, it's made in bad faith. Byee.
If you're young or simple enough to think nuance is "stupid" or "in bad faith," you're probably also too young to know that his biggest hit songs were written about and/or with previous affair partners he's had. He's never hidden this part of himself
People only want to believe in the good of people with wealth or higher status. Ask them if they believe in the good of people with lesser wealth or whom they perceive as lower status and then tell me how much people in the good of other people.
People subscribe to the just world hypothesis because realising that life sucks and good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people makes people uncomfortable.
Yeah I agree with that, I don’t think people should make them into amazing people or horrible people… reading into some tiny interaction just doesn’t mean anything though
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u/WaltWoodman 14d ago
People want to believe in the good of other people. I don’t think that’s a terrible thing.