The next 3 posts will deal with the subject of Heroes, while this is a rather general topic, and one that is quite subjective, I will address Heroes and real estate in the 2nd of 3 posts:
1) What’s a Hero
2) Responsibility of a Hero
3) Who’s your Hero?
Two weeks ago our nation was consumed as yet another modern day Titan’s fell from grace. The Tiger Woods saga, with one woman after another going public on how Tiger disregarded the promise he made to his wife Elin and his family.
In our American Culture, we have a predisposition to view athletes like Tiger as Model Citizens. We place them high on a pedestal and display them for public admiration and private emulation; it wasn’t in the too distant past that everyone wanted to “Be Like Mike”. But wasn’t the Michael Jordan story the same as Tiger’s, jut a different day?
A hero is defined as a person,who in the face of danger and adversity, displays the courage and will for self sacrifice for some greater good; originally material courage or excelence and extended to a more general moral excellence.
When I take this definition and try to apply it to celebrities de-jour such as Tiger, Micheal Jordan, Barry Bonds or “The Donand” (Trump), I come up short. There is no deniening that these individuals are very gifted in what they do, but they are clearly not Heroes. There is no self sacrifice for the greater good either materiallyor morally. They all have a strong dedication to themselves and to serving their needs, wants and desires. The fame our electronic and connected culture bestows on these individuals only excaserbates their narcistic view of the world and their distorted view of their own self worth.
When they get caught, their publicists go into damage control and just as the sun rises in the East, they all go public with admonition of their wrongfull deeds and asking their family and their public for forgiveness.
After the memory of Tiger have faded and America’s attention has turned to the next demagogue, the hurt, felt by Tiger’s wife Elin and their young children, will still be there. They may accept him as a spouse and father, but they will never consider him their Hero.
In my next blog - tomorrow – What is the responsibily of a Hero
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