I despise pretension. To me, the ultimate sin is being pretentious. Wanting to look smarter or cooler than you actually are, ESPECIALLY when you're neither of those things, yet for some odd reason you still want to sell yourself to the masses as those things.
To be quite honest, I'm not comfortable placing myself on a status level that goes any higher than the people I admire the most. I'm not comfortable being "more famous" than my personal heroes are. AS FAMOUS, maybe, but not more. I'd never be comfortable placing the value of myself "above" mentors and friends.
I avoid that particular "brand" of pretentious at all costs. It feels offensive and thoughtlessly superficial to me.
Why the f*** would anyone want to be more popular than the people he admires? That makes zero sense to me. Which is the reason I avoid things like media attention and groupies. Those type of things (self-indulgent, self-proclaimed popularity) reek of pretension.
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