Watching The Dark Knight a second time caused me to have an insight.

There are no more heroes, and maybe there never were. There are merely people willing to step up and do the right thing, at the right time.

The phrase, “no more heroes” particularly struck me, and it wasn’t because it’s also the name of a crazy Japanese video game. I don’t know if I actually believe this thing yet, and it will probably take a while to fully unpack it, but I wanted to throw it out here to see what other people thought.