It was time, Mr Mao said, to end all the "idolisation" and "superstition" surrounding Mao and assess him as an ordinary man.Mr Mao says that people have since telephoned him, threatening to beat him up.
That resonates with a cultural idolisation of childhood purity.
"The imagery is actually very revealing .But for all this idolisation of the political leadership, most of the murals on Tehran walls depict war dead from the eight years of conflict with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Such was the extent of his idolisation prior to the move, the Ohio governor Ted Strickland personally altered state legislation over the size of advertising next to freeways so a 10-storey high billboard of James could remain where it was.
As Oscar Wilde once said, "Americans are certainly great hero-worshippers, and always take [their] heroes from the criminal classes".; Robert Ford's obsessive idolisation of Jesse James echoes our own fixations on him as an American Robin Hood, though the myth laid bare slowly leads to a hatred that ends with Ford putting a bullet in the back of his hero's head.
"North Korea's absolute leadership will be crumble if the idolisation of leader Kim breaks down," he said, refusing to be disheartened by the rarity of computers and DVD players in North Korea "We have to let the world know about the atrocities in North Korea and help our brothers and sisters there," he told the Oslo Freedom Forum.
Idolisation, though, is not without its drawbacks.
Walker describes the initiative as a chance to "raise awareness of the body image issues experienced by women and girls, and to have a discussion about the significant and far-reaching impact of the fashion industry's idolisation of a unique and very small size".
This may be because you are stuck in the idolisation stage, or it could be because, actually, you know your father wasn't perfect (no one is) but for some reason you are protecting yourself from that.
They speak, bleakly, of rising fascism and censorship, of Berlusconi's grip on power, and his idolisation of Thatcher.
This idolisation of Moss is significant.
