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[johnny9fingers]

As we have moved further right, and away from the Welfare-state and towards some Eighteenth century notion of individualism, we seem to be regressing: back to a simpler time, to a time of "The Great Man", the hero, the Uberman standing alone against the sea of unreason and idiocy. A comforting wish-fulfilment of a dream often brought on by testosterone imbalances and/or a lack of other happinesses, no doubt: but far be it for me to dwell, my dears.

But, culturally speaking, what does the hero owe society?

The fact that the hero is the locus and focus of all his influences? Language? Values? Education? Development?

Between me and you, the wish for public ascendancy is symptomatic of something-or-other, certainly: but what exactly, I'm unsure of. Which leads me naturally to our favourite MP-whose-name-has-become-rhyming-slang: Jeremy Hunt.

Another word I'm looking for here, I'm sure, is cronyism.

Poor Dave ain't going to come up smelling of Trumper's rose water lotion when he picks himself up after tripping over this.

Ah Roops, don't you love him?

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[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

MP-whose-name-has-become-rhyming-slang

I don't know what you're talking about! :D

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Well, poor ol' Jeremy Hunt is obviously a silly berk.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

According to my human upbringing, heroes don't think in terms of what is owed them.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I fear you miscontrue: I have been a trifle opaque. Mea culpa.

My question there, for what it's worth as preamble to the various punchlines, should have been phrased thus: what does the hero owe to society?

"Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health." Oops, strayed a bit there.

As an aside, and to agree up to a point with you, the chap that throws himself voluntarily on a grenade to shield others, for example: he's a hero, and, just as he pays society his sacrifice, society owes a debt to him and his.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

And I misconstrue too.

Of course heroes don't think what is owed them. They just do whatever it is they have to, with as good grace as they can muster, hopefully in the moment of extremis, behaving with some small elan. If 'twere me, I'd just hope not to shit myself before I joined the "choir invisbule" [sic] as some chap once said of a stuffed bird in need of a squawk.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

But, culturally speaking, what does the hero owe society?

Owe? OWE???? FOR SHAME, SIR!