Hero Worship Is Part Of Our Psychology

We could list a thousand examples in short order of hero worship in popular culture. This phenomenon, hero worship, is glimpsed here through the unique perspectives of these two women, one a Christian pacifist and one a materialist feminist. Their ideas about classical heroism, and by inference on hero worship, have found themselves swimming together.
　　
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They might offer a fruitful point of departure for understanding the masculinist core principle of the most persistent and bloody form of idolatry.
　　
Over on Facebook, S. Brian Willson, a personal ‘hero’ of mine who laid in front a train carrying weapons to El Salvador and lost both legs at the knees, recently posted a picture of an Air Force captain – a woman – who was in an air conditioned tactical operations center, at a computer, directing the flight of an armed aerial drone to a “target” in Pakistan.

One of the frequent commentators’ objections to this technical killing by someone who would seem at home in a college classroom was that she wasn’t in the battle directly, and therefore was “a coward.” Get your heads around that; then realize that in the hometown newspapers, she is now consistently included in the boilerplate category, “the men and women of the armed forces who are protecting our freedom,” and we see how many fissures the dominant culture is forced to step over and around to avoid falling into its own cognitive dissonance.
　　
In the wake of the euphoria following actor Sanjay Dutt's incarceration and interim bail in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, it seems that the culture of hero worship is more pronounced in India than anywhere else in the world.
　　
Largely, the media is being blamed for glorifying the actor by reporting every little aspect connected with him - from what he wore to what he ate while in prison. But a realisation is also dawning on at least among a few members of the press that objectivity in reporting is getting blurred by the paparazzi culture, which is fuelling the tendency of hero worship among the vulnerable masses.
　　
In each and every case, it is self evident that, with time and a following, that is to say, the head and the body, they lead in their respecitive fields, and led well; some succeeded or were denied success in the military realms, but even in the chaos of theirdestruction left, in marked contrast to the jooish mind, positive instruction and example. 　　Compare these efforts, in life or of the pen, with those who would have you, or force you, to restructure your past, and merge into theirs. That of the CHEKA, NKVD. Pol Pot, Marx, Lennin, Trotzky...the list goes on. Hmmm, decisions, decisions...I wonder.
　　
No, hero worship is part of OUR psychology, it is a mechanism which brings both chaos and power; it is tenuous, bold, calculating; it is not always liked, nor understood at the moment, but it is behind all cultural change and restoration. It is not a ghost of the Past, but a warm-blood of today, a legacy which is granted to each generation, in vitro, sometimes needed, sometimes cast aside, but always with us.