To follow up from before, maybe nowadays heroes/heroines are recognizable only as abstractions teased out from what in the past was so clear cut and simple. Perhaps this is a consequence of the current range of all types of story driven media and the cross cultural nature of today's intellectual zeitgeist?
Still, when you look at any given example, can't you still see the thread that Campbell talks about? Even is the stretch is a long one, you can still span the gap between the ancient and the modern without too much trouble.
And even though "heroic nature" has become obscured by relativism (not in the pejorative sense, simply the objective...err... subjective... sense), I still sense a great connection between all kinds of modern stories and this taproot that is ancient myth.
I think it's ironic is that we've come so far from the ancient world, in some ways, but that we still inhabit and imagine stories that mirror those that are thousands of years old.

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