Yep. They can't be experts in everything. And people expect Neil deGrasse Tyson to be exactly like Carl Sagan, who did have a history degree and was pretty expert on beginner to intermediate-level historical topics. Everyone can't do everything.
I still respect Alice Walker's fiction immensely. It's like how Mozart wrote some of the most brilliant and transcendent music ever, but in his personal life was a philandering jackass. Greatness in one area often comes with downright goofiness (at best) in other areas. And then there are the people who are not necessarily great, but are simply competent and popular, who are thrust into the limelight and expected to be paragons. Fame does strange things to people.
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Date: 2017-09-05 06:50 pm (UTC)I still respect Alice Walker's fiction immensely. It's like how Mozart wrote some of the most brilliant and transcendent music ever, but in his personal life was a philandering jackass. Greatness in one area often comes with downright goofiness (at best) in other areas. And then there are the people who are not necessarily great, but are simply competent and popular, who are thrust into the limelight and expected to be paragons. Fame does strange things to people.