Pellius, it makes for interesting conversations but why do you often feel the need to defend these characters? I have noticed you speaking up for a variety of people when they are getting pulled apart on here and I am curious.
Good question. I like successful people. People who have done something with their lives. When someone is successful it means they have found a way to produce a good or service that other people want and are happy to pay for. Maybe not for you or for me but for many, many out there or they just wouldn't be successful. They make their life and other people's lives better. In addition, they are the ones that provide opportunities such as jobs so that they can support themselves and their families. To me, that's a big big deal.
I don't really know Seth nor follow him and don't care for those motivational bbing vids that come up on FB. In fact, I have commented on those videos many times how lame they are and take issue with all the swearing. There was one vid where a guy says, I think it was that "Fletcher" guy, "I command you to GROW!" I mocked that remark and said it looks like he hasn't grown in years and actually looks smaller than earlier years.
Some of the criticism of Seth"s presentation might be justified but instinctively I don't like the resentment, class envy, and labeling of others that don't share your taste as idiots.
People do what they have to do to give their life meaning and enjoyment. A billion-dollar industry revolves around a guy hitting a little ball into a hole in the ground. I don't get it. That sport in and of itself does nothing to make society a better place. But because so people love it it generates wealth and joy to countless people making the world a better place. Not my thing but I'm not going to call them idiots.
I want and encourage everybody to be successful. It makes for more happy people and happy people are far less likely to shoot up a church or just make other people's lives more miserable.
A person is successful by pleasing others and that makes for a better world.