Or perhaps be aware that heroes are human beings too? As my dad used to say, we all put our pants on one leg at a time.
It's just that nowadays people think heroes who put their pants on one leg at a time have feet of clay and are failing as heroes. Really, we don't want heroes to be human beings. We've lost the awareness our ancestors had that heroes are capable of being asses too. Look at Cuchulainn, for pete's sake, or Heracles. They weren't precisely untarnished silver 24/7/365. And yet we want our heroes to be always shiny and on their pedestals. Of course they're going to fall, being held to standards like that.
It would be nice if heroes could stay heroic all the time, but they can't, and I think deep down underneath we know it. After all, what do critics say about fictional heroes who are heroic all the time? That they're unrealistic.
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It's just that nowadays people think heroes who put their pants on one leg at a time have feet of clay and are failing as heroes. Really, we don't want heroes to be human beings. We've lost the awareness our ancestors had that heroes are capable of being asses too. Look at Cuchulainn, for pete's sake, or Heracles. They weren't precisely untarnished silver 24/7/365. And yet we want our heroes to be always shiny and on their pedestals. Of course they're going to fall, being held to standards like that.
It would be nice if heroes could stay heroic all the time, but they can't, and I think deep down underneath we know it. After all, what do critics say about fictional heroes who are heroic all the time? That they're unrealistic.
It's a tough subject.