"Our culture always needs its villains and heroes, fools and geniuses, scapegoats and role models. Our brains can’t hold all the data about a person, so instead we tend to label and file someone into a single narrow category."
Chuck Klosterman wrote a pretty good book about that idea, called What If We're Wrong?
Need to read that. Thanks for the reminder.
I did a quick review of the book here. Sorry for not thinking to include the link the first time.
https://steemit.com/books/@plotbot2015/oc-book-review-of-chuck-klosterman-s-what-if-we-re-wrong