Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.