Megan Lynch (she/her)

It’s Time To Kill the Hero

"Fastening them together is the idea that we need heroes and geniuses so badly that the harm they cause other people simply doesn’t matter. Is it enough to “cancel” disappointing heroes like Chavez and Redzepi and then continue to avert our eyes from whoever comes next? Or can we try to interrogate the urge to repeatedly create new gods, and new victims, out of a misguided sense that it’s all “worth it,” somehow, for the sake of art or progress or the greater good?"

Mar 19 at 6:51amWeb
Show threadMegan Lynch (she/her)Mar 19

" But if our long-term goal is to prevent these things from happening again, it’s essential to question the institutions that made these men feel secure enough in their importance that they could hurt people with impunity. In a more collectively oriented society, charismatic egotists wouldn’t be so load-bearing that threatening them would be an existential catastrophe. They would just be parts of a greater whole."

https://www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-hero-cesar-chavez-rene-redzepi/

It’s Time To Kill the Hero

On Cesar Chavez, René Redzepi, and all the men we make excuses for in the name of the greater good.

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Show threadGyrfalconMar 19
@meganL If there are no heroes, who do I look up to and aspire to become? And, more importantly to me, how do we avoid that new ideal from becoming co-opted by the next generation of grifters?