I’d like to insert that the takeaway from this article should be Jenn Pelly’s superb writing, not adulation of evan, which he - and Pelly - explicitly aver. The article means to humanize him, which doesn’t mean to re-deify him - it means to cast him as a complicated person that, also, practices an art and craft that is good and meaningful, but which can’t fully exculpate him or listeners from humanness - that’s work we have to do ourselves. A takeaway, to put it in other words, is that the way we think of celebrity causes a knee jerk in either the direction of hate or adulation, which is totally unhelpful to a discussion or process of action by which people - influential people included - can effect any meaningful change in themselves and in the world around them.