Heroism, and its Absence in Modern Culture
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Summary
Heroism is missing from modern culture these days. Where has heroism gone? Has it been replaced with the comedic spectacle manifesting as heroism on the pro-social media and talk shows which encourage debased behavior for the sole sake of getting on TV and getting on national TV?
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heroism really seems to be missing from our culture these days doesn't it you know you take
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you take the adventure movies for instance take the the recent tin tin movie which was surprisingly
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good or the original indiana jones trilogy and in these films you've got a character that's
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primarily an intellectual who's doing what's right who's going up against all odds and thinking his
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out of problems and and yet it all seems pretty easy for him doesn't it it's a fun ride don't get
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me wrong but you never really feel like he's against mortal threat there's a certain cartooniness
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to the whole thing then then you got the action movies you got those those great flicks with guns
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and explosions and helicopters but once again the action movie hero seems to lack a certain element
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of heroism that this hero never really worries about anything it's always it's always a cocked smile
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it's always uh dodging the bullet by some impractical physics he's never really at threat
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you're there for the spectacle rather than to see the character overcome anything there's there's a
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certain bruteness to the action movie hero isn't there and then and then the the genre that truly
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begs for heroism you've got horror and in horror do we see heroes do we see bravery in horror movies at
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all we see in horror movies are vile little human beings turning against one another and deserving
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the torture porn that eventually exists now heroism is almost entirely absent from modern cinema aside
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aside of course from war movies which have a a very distinct and very isolated demographic which they
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appeal to so i think we can safely ignore those uh it brings up the question where has heroism gone
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why has heroism been replaced with this comedic spectacle manifesting as heroism
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it's not the the person that goes against all odds and does what's right even when the situation is hopeless
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they overcome racism they overcome economic oppression
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hero the most vile of the vile the degenerate who managed to overcome their own foolish mistakes
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modern heroism is oprah heroism it's the democratic heroism that we can all aspire to be
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you too you too can be a heroin addict or a meth addict and overcome that and write a book about it and get on national tv
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our modern heroes are just as degenerate as the the incompetence on daytime television
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the the talk shows which encourage debased behavior for the sole sake of getting on television
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and what does that what does happen to the actual heroes what's happened to the actual people that sacrifice or overcome
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or go against all odds what is happening to those people
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well we mentioned action movies earlier didn't we
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fifteen years old he told his friends and family that he was going to be a famous hollywood actor one day
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and he started bodybuilding became a world famous bodybuilder
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from austria that went out and lived his dreams
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it doesn't count because he took steroids for bodybuilding
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while those that actually do something admirable
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you need to meet a standard that christ himself