While we're on the subject, idolizing us as angels is equally troublesome.
Whom do the idols idolize?
We forget most of what we read, but we're more likely to retain some dim memory of books assigned to us by professors we idolized, lent to us by friends we had unspoken crushes on or connected to the heart-stopping events of our lives.
They're not asking for us to idolize them the way we've taught our children to idolize athletes like Kaepernick.
The strapline is also successful in communicating ESPN as a platform for us to idolize our favorite sport superstars.
"In England, we call soccer fans 'football supporters,' because it's like a lot of us obviously idolize soccer players, but you're also quite critical of them; you're quite paternal toward them, like 'What are you doing, mate?
This is the End, while ostensibly set in the aftermath of the Rapture (comedy gold!), was really a sly jab at the self-obsession of outsized Hollywood personalities (and, by extension, all of us who idolize them) which manages to somehow survive even in the face of cannibal gangs, giant demons, and just general chaos.
Back in the 1970s, many of us idolized Evel Knievel.
We idolize celebrities who lie to us about everything from their sobriety to their fidelity.
Thug used to idolize Wayne.
We idolize, in other words, those who amuse us, not those who sustain us.
