When I was growing up, we had discovery channel. That sparked my intrinsic curiousity. My daughter has that intrinsic motivation as well, but only for k-pop now. She likes youtube videos and she likes when I tell her about science stuff. Maybe I can combine that by recommending her some good youtube channels.
I think I kinda get you, but also I think that it’s just kinda the nature of humans to put people on pedestal. I can’t really answer why (and honestly maybe I’m totally wrong, I’m not a social scientist).
As far as pedestal candidates go, if we had to choose, I’d rank him pretty high. Seems to be a fairly reasonable and ethical guy, pretty smart, willing to listen to experts, loves to learn, self aware, and seems to be pretty ethical. Not as far left as I’d like, but choices are slim lol.
How much is a facade and how much is truly him? We can never know. If it’s a facade, it’s an excellent one.