[FRIAM] great man theory

[Steve Smith]

Well said Jon... the pop/collective celebre as poem or gestural (ala
sumi-e) drawing.

Regarding these "seductions", having archetypical figures to identify
with/aspire towards, they can also be cautionary.   I'm sure there are
many (esp. young LIbertarians) who aspire to be Musk.

I don't know how close Glen's debunking of the "Great Man Theory" comes
to the  "Cult of Personality" trope, but they would seem to be
corollaries in some way.


> /*we* make these celebrities/
>
> Celebrity is co-creation. /We/ cannot help but see what we see, /seduced/
> by the possibilities afforded by the image. Dually, the image becomes
> the captive of collective /desire/. What seems worth noting, is the power
> of a partially-defined image, like with poetry, an object that waits
> for another to complete it.
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