03-24-2019, 12:22 PM
(03-14-2019, 05:11 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Naming a generation "Hero" is inherently problematic because hero is an extremely positive word. It's very difficult thing to be against heroes.
There are tarnished heroes -- like the veteran who goes on a rampage, sets up a Ponzi scheme, or turns traitor.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.