Luthor Rex said:
I didn't say I was looking for role models, I said I was looking for characters who I can look at and say "yes I can empathize with that /relate to that / see myself in that". As it has been since childhood I have had almost no examples in literature or popular entertainment for whom I could identify with.
Point taken. You don't need to find all the qualities you'd like to emulate in one person. There is a process in NLP called modeling. It helps you to take specific characteristics in people, and just use that particular characteristic as an example. For example, even if you were a dyed in the wool republican, you could use Bill Clinton to model for public speaking.
If you expect to find people delivered to you on a silver platter that you can look up to, all you're gonna get is the goofs they use to sell to the masses. They won't help you. You've got to build your own models.
But honestly, you don't see characters like that in popular (or even unpopular) entertainment.
because they wouldn't sell very well. Not because anybody thinks they are not to be emulated. Society's model, despite how flawed it is, is that parents provide the role modeling, and movies and sports provide the entertainment.
So if homosexual can get special movies made for them and women with childlike minds can get movies made for them, what do I have to do to get popular culture to show my people's struggle? We'll need a political movement to take over the Humanities I guess.
Go to the store, buy a big box of straws, and suck it the fvkk up. The dudes you mentioned before whose biographies you read did what they did despite not having any body to look up to or emulate. The reason they are so few and far between in popular culture, is most people still have the "mommies t!t" mentality. They need guidance, assistance, validation and approval by every media outlet and magazine cover every fvkking step of their lives. Movies made about guys like Darwin would scare the crap out of them.
The fact that you lived much of your life feeling alienated from fictional characters means that you are capable of living a life beyond the whiners and those always in need of pacifying by mass media puppets.
Don't let the fact that nobody is there to hold your hand keep you from doing whatever you want to do with your life.
The secret of life is that there are no rules, and you get to make them up along the way. Woe is he who always waits for permission and acceptance.
