Experience without theory is blind but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind forgetting the Greek...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
I think once you're in the public eye whether you're a boss a teacher or whatever you do that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.