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Can idols be born out of this era? [37:48]
Chedo: Dante, you wrote a letter that you posted online. You said, “Our idols are aging, this generation is hungry for new visionaries.” Can we have idols in this day of age where everything is fragmented or will they be personal idols?
Dante: I think that the notion that idols can’t be born out of this era is flawed. It hasn’t happened yet, and I think it’s because of social media, but I also think that it’s very possible, it just takes the people who are willing to put the work into their art to make them into the idol. Nobody intends to be an idol, nobody intends to be idolized, it just happens. Whenever you make something and it really resonates with somebody, they’ll look up to you…. We all have that power, we all have the ability to make something whether it be for tech, art, medicine, whatever it is, we all have the ability to make something. When I wrote that letter, that’s what I meant. It’s not a foreign concept that we can still ascend to those heights, we all can do it, it’s within us. We all have a gift that can make us a million dollars… and make ourselves someone to remember.
