"Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero"

A hero is always the result of a challenge-- some overwhelming force to be fought and through great struggle, overcome, whereupon those left standing in some way transcend their old selves and walk newly baptized into a repleninshed world. I think anyone who's experienced them will agree that the teen years are full of such challenges...

The story of a pair of cousins who set out to create a new crop of superheroes in the time preceding and during World War 2.
Plenty of fun.

Metonymy

Couldn't help but think how the american flag stands in for so many concepts, both for proponents and opponents. Stand in front of it, and an entire dialog takes place behind it-- one of patriotism, heroism... and so forth. Burn it or stamp on it, and you say something else entirely.

social heroes

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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Bailout. Probably a worn topic. But what the hell.

I couldn't help but think about whether or not these lovely politicians of ours are in fact villains or heroes. I cannot pretend to be an economist, so I'll stop short of saying whether the decision was in fact wrong or right, but the whole thing smacks of posturing.