@lpfan61 … this might change after you all read this…
I’ve been doubting for so long now if I should post this.
Not knowing how your reactions might be, I’ve been keeping this to myself but I feel like I do have to get it out of my system.
For a while now I’ve been struggling with the whole, let me name it, “Chester cultus” that is going on.
It seems to me that some people are more Chester fans than LP fans. I have no problem with that. Although I sometimes have trouble speaking to fans who can only chat about Chester. It is sometimes as if the rest of the band does not exist. I find this somewhat disrespectful towards the rest of the band members.
But, everyone has the right to their own opinion. I’m the first to aknowledge that.
It shouldn’t even be a right, it’s natural to have an opinion for your own.
The problem I do have is with the “worshipping” of someone who was after all just a man. A beautiful man, someone to look up to and to respect, but nonetheless just a human being like anyone of us, with his pros and his cons.
I understand that his death was and is still a hard thing to cope for many people. And I respect that, just as I respect everybody’s decision or need to believe in something. I’m not gonna discuss about this, even though for me personally, “belief” is non existing.
What I don’t understand is the idolization, glorification and deification of a person.
That can be such a dangerous thing to do.
I agree that Chester had something special but if one thing in his life would have gone completely different than we might even never have heard of him.
I don’t know for sure if I’m making my point here?
It’s difficult to explain my thoughts about this in a small piece of text.
Let me say it simply.
Chester was and is not a god. He was a man, just like all of us, and instead of worshiping him as a god, we should take an example from him, learn from his life, from his being, even from his death.
The idolatry alone is, in my opinion, more evidence of a lack of courage and honor to take control of life itself.
Now let the angry reactions come to me