I was talking to a friend the other day and he said something like " I don't believe that movie star was selfish in floating the political party. The people around him must have used his innocence and screwed with him". What I wonder is how we feel so attached with some person's talent that instead of appreciating his talent, we start defending all his actions, important point being "all". The actor in question is Telugu Star Chiranjeevi who floated and eventually merged a political party. He maybe a great actor but that doesn't mean he is a great human being. Even a highly educated and intelligent person is not ready to believe that a movie star who was a true-hero in all the movies could be selfish in real life.
We spend so much time debating who is the greatest batsman of all time instead of enjoying the cricketing shots of Bradman, Sachin and Lara. Human brain is so selfish that instead of enjoying cricketing shots which caused us great pleasure in the first place, we start associating the pleasure we felt to the person and start appreciating him instead of the shot. We waste energy in defending the person instead of just appreciating the cricket as it is and enjoy a good shot played by any person. I am just taking an example of cricket.
This might have something to do with as simple as "convenient" to our brain. Hero worship maybe needed so that we get a role model for ourselves. Trying to be like another human is far easier trying to follow a set of principles. You just try to do whatever the person does. But after a while you forget to, rather do not bother to, check if what that person is doing is right or wrong. Then we waste energy in defending the said person.
Why do we like a person? We look at some of their actions and like the actions and we associate them with those actions but after a while, the liking to the person develops so much that if that person does something wrong, we start defending the person instead of just accepting that and appreciating a good act wherever you see it. When it is the good act you appreciate, why not just do that instead of appreciating the person who did that and later defending his other actions? Shouldn't we love/hate their actions given that those are what caused the reaction to that person in the first place?
One theory I can think of is, you develop a feeling to a kind of person so that it is easy to take decisions on them. For example, if you like a lot of actions of a person, it increases the probability of you liking the person's future actions. Hence, you have his mental picture of him in 'like' state so that next time he says he is doing something and invites you, you can trust that you would also like doing that thing. After several works you do together reinforces this, you call him a 'friend'. Maybe when we replace 'like' here with 'awe', we get 'hero' instead of 'friend'.
We spend so much time debating who is the greatest batsman of all time instead of enjoying the cricketing shots of Bradman, Sachin and Lara. Human brain is so selfish that instead of enjoying cricketing shots which caused us great pleasure in the first place, we start associating the pleasure we felt to the person and start appreciating him instead of the shot. We waste energy in defending the person instead of just appreciating the cricket as it is and enjoy a good shot played by any person. I am just taking an example of cricket.
This might have something to do with as simple as "convenient" to our brain. Hero worship maybe needed so that we get a role model for ourselves. Trying to be like another human is far easier trying to follow a set of principles. You just try to do whatever the person does. But after a while you forget to, rather do not bother to, check if what that person is doing is right or wrong. Then we waste energy in defending the said person.
Why do we like a person? We look at some of their actions and like the actions and we associate them with those actions but after a while, the liking to the person develops so much that if that person does something wrong, we start defending the person instead of just accepting that and appreciating a good act wherever you see it. When it is the good act you appreciate, why not just do that instead of appreciating the person who did that and later defending his other actions? Shouldn't we love/hate their actions given that those are what caused the reaction to that person in the first place?
One theory I can think of is, you develop a feeling to a kind of person so that it is easy to take decisions on them. For example, if you like a lot of actions of a person, it increases the probability of you liking the person's future actions. Hence, you have his mental picture of him in 'like' state so that next time he says he is doing something and invites you, you can trust that you would also like doing that thing. After several works you do together reinforces this, you call him a 'friend'. Maybe when we replace 'like' here with 'awe', we get 'hero' instead of 'friend'.
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