There are often times when I am a shithead. I hope that the times I am not a shithead greatly outweigh the times I am. I don't have a podcast to broadcast all the moments I am a shithead and I am grateful for that.
I keep coming back to this. The people who demonize him are right some of the time. The people who lionize him some of the time are also right some of the time. The problem in my mind is the rush to the extremes of demonization and lionizationfor flawed human beings. He shouldn't have been shot. He also should not have said a lot of the shitty things he said.
There is a saying that, "who you are some of the time, is who you are all of the time." That saying is flawed because we vacillate between our dark side and our light side. The reality is who we are is who we are. I wish that future leaders, and for better or worse, Kirk was a leader, will keep in mind that people will attribute every action they take to those extremes.
Drunk thoughts on a Sunday evening.