Kobe Bryant’s Great, But He Ain’t “Transcendent”

Trinity jumping across the street clip (GIF), The Matrix (1999), January 31, 2020. (https://gfycat.com/)

I don’t know who needs to read this, but no matter how talented someone is, no matter how often someone had triumphed in their field, no matter how popular they are, and no matter their level of celebrity status, that person is not necessarily transcendent. Many of these folk are assholes. Yet we Americans use the term so often that all one would have to do to transcend in this country is film themselves…