Idolatry

The game plan which should have been obvious right from the start if I'd given it a moment's thought, was to tell people how talented and awesome we are. Not only did we win our own Idols, we'd say, which of course we did, we also won it in India, and wouldn't you believe it we also won it in the world's toughest most-competitive place. So now you know who's the most talented culture on the planet ehh.

I believe he got more votes than everyone else, there's no doubt about that in my mind. Fairly certain there's stipulations on who how judges get to make the final decisions so that they can tell people it's a singing competition and not a popularity one. Dude was talented af and would've done fine without having the one-track thinking that wants one of our kind to win, under any circumstances.

In any case, it's worth considering, is our idol-worshiping somehow related to the literal idol-worshiping that we do? Perhaps because we're so focused on creating and worshiping gods...the ones that live in the temples, we want to extend that to idols that don't live in temples anymore? Likely it's seeing patterns where there are none and that's fair. Still, one wonders why of all the groups in the world we are so uniquely obsessed with things like these. Why do we care so much for shared validation that any other group? Etcetera. Something to chew upon while you plan your torch riots obviously.