Difference between the hero and the celebrity:
"The hero becomes more famous with the passage of time, while it is precisely the passage of time that destroys the celebrity." - @johndavidebert
Heroes are antifragile, celebrities are fragilistas.
@nntaleb
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Compare for ex Monroe and a lot of heroes feom WWII (same period approximately) about who you surely don’t know a lot now

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Monroe is not a normal celebrity. She is a mythological archetype who has gone through a hero's journey. The average actor is not remembered. The average soldier isn't a hero in the mythological sense, but Chesty Puller and George Patton are.https://twitter.com/MimeticValue/status/1006569776880029696?s=19 …
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Surely a lot of peoples enjoying reading Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Here in Russia almost all celebs becouse almost all peoples at school do that


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No, it's not an excuse, in fact, Monroe was featured in the book. It's a social effect, not simply an attribute of herself. The point is the societal need for myth creation that traces back to human sacrifices at the origin of the human species.
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I'm not putting Monroe on a pedestal for reading. The point here is that fame has made her into an ancient religious sacrifice and disintegrated her ego, which immortalized her inside culture. This isn't what happens to most soldiers or celebrities.
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But you can make such excuse for any powerfull celebrity! Its terminological manipulation. If something not fits into theory call it different kind? May be better to advice theory a bit?
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No, you can't. Vast majority of celebrities are not cultural icons. They become irrelevant quickly, because they don't fulfill the roles the old gods or saints played.
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