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#473 - Tom Van Der Linden - Finding Heroic Meaning In Modern Life
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Problem With Heroic Stories?
I think that a big part of it, at least from me and from the bodies that i've shilled your content to as well, one of the reasons it's enjoyable is that digging into the real discomfort. There's one hero in every story, but everybody that watches the story kind of presumes that it's us that's supposed to play that role. Do you think that there is a problem in being too heavily reliant, or putting heroic stories up on a pedestal because of that reason? Am, it definitely can be. But even though i would point it out as problematic, i wouldn't say, like it's immediately, like a judgment of humanity.
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