I was chatting with a friend who specializes in celebrity PR, and we discussed the recent downfall of a "perfect persona."

I asked: Why is it that the person who was once the most promoted is now being criticized the most? He lit a cigarette and said: Because "deifying someone" is just the prelude; "destroying the deity" is the climax.

I: Are you saying that everyone was waiting for this moment from the beginning? He: Subconsciously, yes. Everyone worked together to elevate him to the throne, to crown him with gold, not because they truly loved him, but to create an extremely expensive porcelain piece through this kind of "collective investment."

I: And then? He: Then they wait to see it shatter. When that originally flawless saint falls into the mud and becomes as dirty as an ordinary person, or even more miserable, the public will experience a huge, almost pathological sense of compensation.

I: Where does this sense of compensation come from? He: From the revenge of the mediocre. "Look at him, so dazzling, but in the end, he's just a pile of mud. I'm poor, but at least I'm not as dirty as him."

Later, I realized that the so-called "national idol" is nothing more than a collective sacrifice fed and exalted by the masses. Everyone feeds it well, lifts it high, just to enjoy the thrill of personally knocking down a giant during the ritual.