It's not about reading his work, it's about being an aspirational figure that generations want to follow and emulate. I didn't know any of these about Asimov and he has written some of the stories that I believe is the finest. But would I say to my kids "look at this great guy, be like him!"?
Honestly I never could relate to this focus I see nowadays on role models and aspirational figures. I think you should at most get inspired by specific actions scoped to the relevant areas of their lives.
Just tell your kids to be themselves. They don't need to emulate anyone.
>It's not about reading his work, it's about being an aspirational figure that generations want to follow and emulate.
People can still "follow and emulate" the achievements he did, not whatever bad side.
Like people still try to follow all kinds of public figures, despite their known bad sides, from Hemingway to Jobs.
Else we would only follow saints.
() not to mention, if the tide turns, even the bad side could be "cool" again. There are even people into things like satanism or self-destruction, or womanizing, or machoism after all, and they too have their idols.
