About heroes...

[rhkennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 187929


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
>     The greatest battle a hero must fight is with him or herself. And
> those who have won that battle, in real life or fiction, will not be
> considered heroes by the majority of Westerners born past 1935 or so,
> not because the hero was not heroic, but because hero had the flaw to be
> overcome in the first place.
>
>


Well, no doubt.  But compared to DD, PNB is a coward.  His fight is over, he's dead, just another pontificating talking head holding forth from the safety of a portrait (or television, for that matter).

DD is still engaged in the battle, making choices and having to uncover truths and worry about consequences. It's easy to be brave and wise from PNB's prospective.

Teddy Roosevelt did a speech back in 1910(-ish) usually referred to as the Man in the Arena speech that speaks to this directly.

Rick