The book I've written in my head.

     I've had the notion that "I will write a book" will turn into "well that was a hell of a  book I've produced" but my mental thoughts have yet to take me to my actions sitting down and writing this massive thing i've been carrying around for years.
I've thought "i will title my book this or that" which often changes every few months or so when I've received some new wealth of information either through personal experience meeting day to day people, on the internet or via movies, seminars i attend or cds i hear.

Today, I had that thought again.

     The persistent thought today was that the general population, at least in my view, has a mis-perception on "great people".  You know who I'm writing about - the Mahatma Gandhi's of the world, the MLK's of the world, the inventor's singer/songwriters, actors, directors, scientists.  Anyone who is 'anyone' in someone's mind.  I think the judgement of WHO someone is in the perceived notion, is hard to remove once there.  The actual person that those very same people grew up next to (whether siblings or neighbors) remember them by their name and how they were while growing up, not their achievements.  They remember them by the stories they have when a kid, rather than how they are perceived now in the lime light.

     I think that when someone grows up, it's not that they 'stop' being who they were while growing up, but that the new label given by many more people overshadows the 'human'.  The mythical form then begins to take shape, and years later the tamper tantrums, the cries, the fights, the disagreements all take a backseat.   What is left, is instead the hollowed out version of what people now perceive.  This hollowed out version is now 'the person' in total.

     I think that when a celebrity, politician or any one else well known has some 'dirt' come up, it's baffling to the general population how a person with the given 'status', could "fall" -from the very same pedestal that was given onto them.  I realize some people are placed on pedestals for societal reasons, but this doesn't take away their humanity.

"what? they had an affair? what they are divorced? what! someone in their family died?!" 

- People are people, no matter which light is given onto them.

What?! Gandhi said what about which group of people ?! (link@)

Mother Teresa did what with her money?!  (link@)

Did Martin Luther King Jr  really slept with who?! ((link@)

     -- the guy down the street has done these things various times but when people are 'idolized' , it's as though no sin can be committed... and when it happens, boy is there hell to pay.

When will people start realizing that no matter what people do or what they don't do, they are still human beings.  It's, i believe, a way to disassociate from the great potential that lies in everyone's reach.  It is a way for the average Joe to look back and say "they are the chosen few to do those things, not me" --and also works great when psychopaths and killers go on rampages "oh man i could NEVER do such a thing" - we disassociate, and demonize those who do wretched things because ... well, it's not something we want to associate with nor aspire to be near.

This is why countries demonize other countries, why government officials demonize others, and why terrorists become the scum of the earth to some, while at the very same time become god-like to others who follow their ideology.

Dehumanizing humans has become so 'work as usual' that people don't consciously realize it's happening.  Samantha Smith (wiki) visited Russia during the cold war and stated "They're just like us!" -as her ideology, and that of many, was so prevalent in our differences, that people had almost forgotten how human and connected we really were.