No More Heroes
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.
No Heroes huh? Well the way I look at it is, whom ever gets called hero doesn’t really have a choice in unless that’s what they’re after. It is just a normal person who steps up and does what does the right thing at the right time. It’s those who see it and\or hear about it that label him\her Hero. So as long as people look p to other people there are going to be heroes. That’s how I see it.
I think, from the looks of your post about Wall-E, you answered your own question. Properly define the word, and you’ll find heroes everywhere. Let pop culture define it for you, and they say we need to be superhuman and dysfunctional in someway.
We can see plenty of dysfunction, but no superhuman powers in society, so it’s easy to assume there are no heroes following their logic.
sounds like you’re saying, “don’t worry about titles, just do the right thing” … something Dark knight expresses, which is true, is the fact that human heroes can do extraordinary things, but they’re still human, so they’re going to be imperfect.