The golden calf is alive and mean to its fans

As I said before about the problem of celebrity idolatry being based on idealisation where it’s if the golden calf came alive but does things its followers never foresaw like throwing fits at everybody, smoke weed in social media, gives the middle finger (or middle hoof) to fans and cusses a lot in front of younger followers that the golden calf isn’t ever what they hoped for and expected to.

A lot of celebrities are like this, where regardless of the character the problem is the same thing all over again in many permutations and forms. It’s as if you’re upset because your favourite actress hates dealing with her child as to lose her cool and smack them around, prefers to care for dogs, is mentally ill and abusive to her husband that your golden calf isn’t what you hoped to be, it’s only a human.

The golden calf will always disappoint its worshippers where fans might except it to be sweet, but it has a raging hot temper that on a bad day it smacks its fellow cows around and punches a worshipper in the face to the point where the golden calf will never live up to its worshippers’ expectations and idealisations.

Coming alive, but not nice

To give you the problem with celebrity idolatry being idealisation, that’s if the golden calf came alive but turned out to be rude to its followers and too independent to do things its worshippers wanted it to do, even so emotional the golden calf even has a meltdown and smacked its fans thrice. The golden calf might even be dealing with mental health issues like schizophrenia, not good at parenting, abusive and so irritable as to be really nasty on a really, really bad day.

Somebody’s actress is the golden calf come alive who even smacks her family whenever she loses her temper, affectionate to animals more and even curses a lot in front of a small child but it could be anybody else. The problem would be the same, if their favourite celebrity does things that disappoint their fans like having a regularly hot temper in public underneath the facade that it’s the real McCoy and not the ideal.

Same thing if it doesn’t want to take care of a child, even violent whenever mad at them and the fans too that the golden calf’s bound to disappoint whenever it messes up big time in front of them.

Even golden calves are fallible

When it comes to celebrity idolatry, there’s always the possibility of celebrities disappointing their fans to the point of being infuriating and heartbreaking that it’s if their favourite actress turns to be bad-tempered and rude, not a good mother (preferring dogs to children), abusive and mentally ill that the person they idolised as escapism is really another human being that they’re heartbroken about it.

Same thing would happen if she’s a massive animal hoarder who’d rather care for animals than look after fellow humans, not always the best at what they should be doing, petty, rude, does Wicca when people don’t expect her to and even making foolish mistakes like dangling a baby off the balcony. It could be argued she’s still a sinner like everybody else, doing foolish things like abusing her husband and child in a rage that even golden calves are fallible.

But that’s also the most heartbreaking thing for their followers who don’t expect their golden calves to be foolish, violent to their families, have meltdowns and be bad parents but they are still human, however depressingly as it is.

Rich and famous, but still human

I still think even being rich and famous doesn’t stop people from being jerks, idiots and shrews where let’s say Johnny Depp is idolised by people but he’s also reputed to beat up Amber Heard to the point where if some of his fans knew that, they’d be very disappointed knowing that he’s not perfect and is very frustrating too.

It could be true for any other celebrity, where underneath the sweet veneer lies a foul temper, doing very unlikable things, in the wrong or foolish though that doesn’t make them any less of people as much as it destroys the idealised versions in their fans’ heads, as if they aren’t what they seemed to be. Let’s say Corey Haim was idealised the same way, even though he’s fallible and human.

River Phoenix had some admirable qualities but he too was only human, indulging in drugs and possibly not always the kind person fans make him out to be. In some regards, even golden calves can turn out to be petty, rude and demeaning to their fans and also to their lovers, not always the best at what they’re doing and even bad at parenting.

This isn’t to say they’re necessarily bad, as much as their humanity can disturb fans’ idealisations without knowing they make stupid mistakes like leaving their child whilst caring for the dogs, hot temper and even schizophrenic.

Idolisation of celebrities

When it comes to celebrity fandom and the like, there’s a tendency to imagine the idealised version never mind that said celebrity never fulfills it but in ways if the fans knw, they’d be disappointed like how their favourite actress isn’t that good at mothering humans, preferring to baby dogs and has a fiery temper underneath the facade that it seems the real version isn’t the idol they worshipped, only a mere human being put on a pedestal.

I suspect the problem is if the fans knew about their actress being this fallible, it would disappoint them as the character they idealised isn’t what they make her out to be. She may be sweet, but also has a temper that runs deep in her personality. She might be relatable, but also disappointing enough to know that she is a fallible creature who may not always take care of her children a lot, but still a human being.

The expectations are so high, fans are even disappointed about their favourite celebrity being wrong in some cases. Their favourite celebrity turns out to be a bad mother, a shrew to her husband and favours dogs more than children but for all her flaws, that doesn’t make her any less of a person though that destroys the illusion of the fans’ ideal version of who she is. But it seems even idols are fallible, broken and never as perfect as fans will them to be.

The fallible golden calf

When it comes to the real problem with idolatry, the real problem is idealisation in which the golden calf is put on a pedestal and imagined to be nearly flawless even though it has some flaws like broken parts, defective in some regards and even full of rats and cockroaches going in and out that scares and upsets its followers.

Somebody might turn their favourite actress into a golden calf but the cracks are open like a hot temper, rude to people, mentally ill, not always a good parent and making bad mistakes like caring for dogs more to the point where fans are upset at her inability to do things right, even though she’s only human like them: fallible, sometimes doing wrong things and even embarrassing people in public.

The ideal version of her clashes with her actual personality where you might say she’s sweet but that’s also not realising she can break away from that illusion whether if she berates people in public, loses her temper big time or does really foolish things to the point where the ideal version is the idol, the real version is a fallible human put on a pedestal.

The red flags are there, but if the fans knew they’d also be disappointed that their idol is fallible and makes dumb mistakes like not caring for her child and preferring the dog more that she’s only a human and not a demigod.

Idolatry and its problem

I still say the real problem of idolatry is idealisation where you’d think they won’t disappoint you until you realise their faults like having a chronically bad temper despite the sweet facade (hence your expectations until she turns out to frustrate you this way), not a good parent and even an animal hoarder.

The idol you idealise isn’t perfect, she makes mistakes like preferring the dog over the child, losing her temper a lot to berate her husband and even cussing in front of a fan when mad that you love her, but she’s not perfect and does unlikable things that it hurts you a lot, to the point where the anger is mutual but that’s extrapolating from my experiences here.

Let’s say you idealise Caitlin Snow enough to call her an idol of sorts, never mind that she thinks she’d get away with stuff if she becomes a wolf like killing animals with her dogs until held accountable by Barry Allen and made to hunt rats only. You don’t want your idol to be imperfect, even though they are whenever they have to face their mistakes like these.

The idol makes mistakes like abandoning the child for the dog, losing her cool a lot to berate people and even a compulsive animal hoarder to keep her calm, even if you don’t expect her to do those things but being human, she’s bound to fail to meet your expectations. To the point where she (and anything else) are a poor substitute for let’s say God or at least not a good substitute for friends.

Especially if she does things you don’t expect her to do, you feel hurt when she does that as she’s only human.

I’m only human, born of flesh and blood

In the sense that the real problem with idolising people and to some extent fictional characters is that they’re putting fallible people on a pedestal but without knowing the flaws hurt, if they did I probably felt the same way around others before. To give you the idea of the problem, that’s if Flash fans didn’t expect Caitlin Snow to not only turn out to be a werewolf witch out to drink blood from animals but also makes her dogs do the same until Barry Allen stops this and makes them hunt rats to avoid doing worse to others.

Nobody expected her to make a big mistake on television, let alone be held accountable by Barry Allen of all things or on the other side, nobody expected Barry Allen to be hard on Caitlin especially if she has a habit of hunting animals in her wolf form, but knowing she did wrong he had to make a compromise for her like hunting rats. Likewise, nobody would’ve expected a celebrity to be not only schizophrenic but also autistic, dog-hoarding and doesn’t always take care of the child.

But that would mean that person is human, they make mistakes sometimes with consequences they have to bear with. Like if Caitlin Snow commits the sins of murder and deception in the form of a wolf, but Barry’s had enough and has to make her hunt only rats to avoid seeing her offend again like she has to be held accountable for what she does. But that would mean they made a big mistake, like Caitlin killing Wally’s hamsters as a wolf.

Human after all

In the sense that the problem with idolatry’s the tendency to put such characters on a pedestal but knowing the flaws would hurt somebody (that happened to me once or twice). To wit, The Flash’s Caitlin Snow is fallible in the sense that she’s actually a werewolf who’s so spiteful as to use black magic with her dogs to attack animals and people but Barry holds her accountable by making her attack only rats to avoid offending others the next time around.

That would be just as heartbreaking to some people as they don’t expect her to do those things, even if she’s a fallible person if she ever existed in real life all the duping people as a wolf but also made accountable for her actions that’s too close to real life to be escapist. Even if that’s only natural Caitlin would have to face the consequences of her actions, but that would mean she made a big mistake by thinking she’d get away with killing things if she were a wolf.

I think some fans would feel just as bad if let’s say Stephanie Brown smacks Tim Drake around for cheating on her with another girl and watching porn that it’s if she’s not only offended by what he did (though that’s relatable to some) but also where Tim Drake faces the consequences of his mistake where Steph smacks him around for cheating on her. I might as well extend this to IRL characters where they might be neglectful with their children, lose their cool on Instagram a lot and do drugs.

But that would be disappointing to some fans if they knew their favourite celebrity isn’t what they made them out to be, that’s if they not only have mental health problems but do things that shock others like not being careful with the child or caring for animals more than the child. Such people are still sinners or at the very least, fallible like the fictional characters I mentioned before.

Somebody might make a mistake by caring for dogs more than the child, but once neglect comes they only have themselves to blame and by chance, they might learn their lesson on not doing it again the next time. Likewise DC’s Caitlin Snow thinks it’s a good idea to dupe people in the form of a wolf and kill animals with but made accountable by Barry to hunt rats only, as if even for her good spots she is still capable of doing bad.

Or at least fallible, sometimes wrong for doing things and made to mature along the way.

18 and Life to Go…Badly

I still think my point about fame bears repeating. It wouldn’t matter how famous you are, you are still a pervert/jerk/loser/nutcase whatever that is. To put it this way, DC’s Caitlin Snow comes from a wealthy, noble family. But that hasn’t stopped her from bullying Wonder Woman and threatening to kill people in wolf form.

If I’m not mistaken, there were even cruel nobles. Most notably Elizabeth Bathory (allegedly practised witchcraft and tortured a lot of girls) and Marquis de Sade (also killed girls and inspired certain words). Caitlin Snow is like this. She’s always violent to people and animals whenever she’s enraged or hungry.

She’s also something of a liar who pretended to be an adult to get into the Justice League (she’s really a teenager, possibly younger than Tim and gets put into Young Justice anyways). She even bullies her teammate Spoiler and the latter beats her up for it. Even if you’re rich and famous, that doesn’t stop you from being a jerk or fool.

The late Princess Diana wasn’t just a style icon. She also had bulimia, bad mood swings and even treated her husband poorly. Again that still proves my point that no amount of celebrity stops people from being jerks really.