Thats good about the football @GezzaP I didnt get to watch the opera, wasnt entirely in the mood for it. Your neighbour sounds lovely, I'm so glad you have him in your life to back you up when needed. I'm just reading articles on substack about golden halo effect and hero worship. Recently we saw a controversial someone from our online global community exit. He espoused all kinds of ideologies when he was alive only for them to fall flat and people had poured their total faith and trust in this person bypassing their own need for critical thinking.
Am also seeing this with a "poster girl" on you tube lately. She is charismatic, oozes goodness, can talk her way out of anything and appears beyond reproach. She has an abiding community of followers that accept everything she says, if you dont theyres something wrong with your argument as she possesses greater scrutiny and intellectual prowess than you. She is promoting keto which is just another repackaged high fat diet which as we know at a later date can lead to metabolic disorders, thickening of the blood, insulin resistance, fatty liver, heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
Reminds me of the mushroom retreat (not mushroom cook) in Kyneton where people were under the guidance of a psychologist for micro dosing of a psychedelic mushroom and someone died as a result. The psychologist had a nice, kind, caring demeanour and could not put a foot wrong and people submitted themselves to this person's care because she had the officialdom and she inspired trust.
These people with golden halos and ego inflation just seem to take off with everyone elses dreams due to the publics unlived potentials whom they live through. They agree with everything theyre told because they acknowledge the person as being some kind of hero or saviour. I'm seeing a lot of this lately with people surrendering their own judgement to take on board what people say. I think its one thing to promote an idea for people to think about and assess in their own minds and another to quell open dissent
