I sought a lesson we could learn from this situation, and your comment captured such a lesson well.
This is reminiscent of the message of the Dune trilogy. Frank Herbert warns about society’s tendencies to “give over every decision-making capacity” to a charismatic leader. Herbert said in 1979:
The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes.
I sought a lesson we could learn from this situation, and your comment captured such a lesson well.
This is reminiscent of the message of the Dune trilogy. Frank Herbert warns about society’s tendencies to “give over every decision-making capacity” to a charismatic leader. Herbert said in 1979: