Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Timing is everything...

“It is in times of emergency that heroes are looked for, and found…”

Heroes are rebels, they are the brave souls who defy authority and stand up for what is right. The reason that heroes have such an appeal is because in times of need there they are, capes blowing in the wind, ready to save the day. Take Franklin D Roosevelt for example, 10 years before the depression his New Deal would not have been accepted. It was only after a few years of the Depression, when unemployment rates were 25% that Americans were willing to accept governments help in job creation. “It is an unhappy land that looks for heroes.” When times are tough we look to the sky in hopes of seeing Superman sweeping in to save the day.

2 comments:

  1. You say that heroes stand up for what is right, yet in his day Hitler was considered a hero too. A few years earlier or later HItler would not have had such a meteoric rise in Germanic politics yet he had his success in the same time as FDR experienced his. It is arguable that heroes do not necessarily stand up for what is right, but they still do the monumental task of standing up; for what purpose or motive, is arguably, irrelevant.

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  2. Right is a relative term, it means a different thing to each person. Hitlers concept of what was right is drastically different than mine, but nonetheless is it right to him. So in his mind he was standing up for what was right. So I do not think that the motivation behind their actions are irrelevant because they show us the reasons for their actions.

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