The Big Ideas: Heroes and Heroics
We are seeing a renewed interest in the idea of heroics–the heroic individual, the heroic idea and the search for someone or something that can bring order to the world around us and create the peace (and peace of mind) that we so desire. Is such a hero or heroic action possible? Or even desirable? Where is the place for the iconoclast–the free thinker who questions our already questionable assumptions and who even questions our desire for a hero?