Whatever happened to all the heroes?

Is there anyone in public life who you look up to these days? I can't see many around. Trump and Johnson are a prize pair, the multi-billionaires are in it for themselves. I admire Sanders, and Chomsky speaks a lot of sense. After that I'm starting to run dry.

 

Since when has a political figure ever been a hero?

A hero kills people, people that wish his harm. A hero is generally born from a childhood trauma or a disaster that must be avenged.

 

Andrew Tate
Candace Owens
Julian Assange

 

No, but honestly, I've found television to be a surrogate for that. Shows like "Madam Secretary" and "Designated Survivor" or "NCIS" and others have elements of truth and values and leadership and responsibility; qualities that I like and have strived to embody as well as looked up to. In all seriousness, that is how I remind myself what is good, worth living for, and hopefully what this country stands for.

 

All the heroes were called madmen... The madmen became the heroes.

 

what the story books don't tell you is the price of being a hero is one kind of martyrdom or another.
hero's forsake their own comfort and popularity for what they believe to be the common good.
real hero's are too humble to be noticed.

it isn't a way to get elected or sell books. it can happen, but its not too likely.
its not that the universe discriminates against them.

now the thing is, its by the very act of going unnoticed, that they have their positive effect in this world.

 

Sorry, can't stop myself

 

That hair reminds me of Miracle Max from Princess Bride

 

I was thinking it too

 

To me, a hero helps people selflessly. To me, you are describing a traditional "Super hero", like a fictional one. Like, would you consider a firefighter who did not have childhood trauma, but who rescued like 40 kids from a burning building, at his own risk, a hero?

 

No need to look further than here, US Marine Corps!!

 

We had what I considered to be some heroes in the 60s, but the right wingers killed em' off.

 

Not necessarily a super hero. King Arthur, Richard Lionheart, Robin Hood, Beowulf etc. are all classic hero's for standing up against a common enemy. This is what hero's are to me, since a child in a book titled Hero's. They didn't have super powers or anything like that so they do not linger in the catagory of super hero at all. I class these as historical figures even if mythical. I class a fire fighter as somebody that's doing their job, unless volunteer.

 

Love that Film mate !

 

I think although servicemen and medic workers are and should be well respected, I can't really put them in the "hero" class IMO because they've been trained to do that job. They wanted to do it, they've been selected, trained, qualified and finally get paid to provide the community that service. That's why I said "unless volunteer" as they obviously aren't as well equipped or trained but ready to put their life on the line without pay.

But when I hear the word "hero" the next word that follows in my mind is "legend" hero's and legends, which is why I connect them to the idols I do. Difference makers in a world that struggled to accept them.

 

Hogan's Heroes Corporal Louis LeBeau is 94, there are only two surviving members of Hogans Heroes.
Kenneth Washington being the other..

 

I am in accordance with Irminsul

When heroism comes to mind it's followed after by Wiglaf at Beowulf's side to aid him in his fight with the Worm.

the Persian wars with Greece esp. Thermopylae

It is exceeding wonder how a confederacy of small city-states could drive back the largest empire in the world
It wasn't their numbers or their resources
It was the Greeks spirit that pulled them through
It was their desire for independence
For freedom
And in this is to be found the Spirit of all heroism


(although the very spirit of that Freedom later had dimished)