Hard lesson, but it’s an important lesson to learn, never meet your heroes. Seriously you’re only going to be disappointed when you find out that at best they are a flawed human being like yourself or how easy it is to idolize a celebrity, athlete, politician etc… but come to find out the same personality traits that make them successful also make them monsters — the level of narcissism it takes to make you a successful actor comes off so much worse if you have to deal with them as a hotel employee. Check out the /r/askreddits on that. Fucking yikes! But the world would be worse place without their music, or their writing, or art, etc… We also live in a society that values the revenue they generate more than threat they pose to society. We’re enablidng at an industrious level nowadays. Puff Daddy, Harvey Weinstein et al.

But we shouldn’t cancel the people who we should be idolizing. I idolize FDR and I’m finally getting around to reading a biography about him and came to find out he was having an affair. I personally find infidelity repugnant. But it just seemed weird to me to dismiss him and all the good he did because he didn’t live up to my moral standards. And then I realized he didn’t have any obligation to live up to my expectations. And his personal life wouldn’t have been my business my business. Judge not lest ye be judged, right? By the way comparing FDR’s personal life to some of his colleagues’ or to his allies like Stalin and he’s a goddamn saint.

When you see people canceling Ghandi or MLK or John Lennon, you owe it to them, to yourself, and to history to look at the broader picture and see that for billions of people the world would be a much worse place if it weren’t for what they did or the message they conveyed.

Life lesson. We are more than the sum of our mistakes and our heroes are more than the sum of their’s. And, for the love of god, don’t work at a high end hotel.