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What is a Hero?

EddMarkStarr

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Since June 2024 an amazing series of events took place on YouTube.

The production staff of the TV series, The Acolyte, petitioned YouTube (Google) to terminate the "Star Wars Theory" channel account due to his unfavorable critic's review of the series.
Supporters of The Acolyte also started an online campaign to "cancel" Star Wars Theory through social media pressure.

Star Wars Theory calmly explained that his job as a critic is to give an honest review, and YouTube agreed with him and notified the Disney+ production team that the SWT account is in good standing.

Until four months ago I'd never heard of Star Wars Theory. Now he has become more that just a Star Wars fan with a YT channel. Is Star Wars Theory a hero to the Star Wars fanbase?

 
The Acolyte sucked huge.

Someone should have called the police.
 
The online attack against Star Wars Theory was so comprehensive that even Mark Hamill joined in.

The response from SWT was so thoughtful and deferential, it made me take notice of him. He displayed more maturity than I would have under similar circumstances.
 
pigface said:
Modelling your life and decisions on a fictional film character sounds somewhat like a psychiatric problem.
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At some point, throwing around "psychiatric" as a sort of epithet is a bit transparent.

By that application, the vast majority of the world's religious populatiton would be psychiatrically impaired. And, as psychiatry is applied, it is more or less relegated to those who are socially dysfunctional due to a congnitive defect or dissonance.

Redefining the majority of the population to be so impaired defies the definition of deviance and dysfunction.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
I attended a mythology discussion group in Albuquerque for years, led by a licensed therapist who continually returned to Campbell's thesis. Many myths and popular works of fiction were addressed.
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Very popular in America, almost unknown -before YouTube- in Europe.

Michael Moorcock has the Eternal Champion, not sure where whence he got this idea.

It's also possible Campbell corresponded with people like Tolkien, but I'm not a student of literature (not even in my own language).

What little I've heard is bland and boring. Europe had Jung -who went further- and I'm not sure I even believe him.

Not every hero is Luke Skywalker and not every story has a hero.
 
There has also been a lot of discussion of the rise of the Antihero in recent decades, and its influence on the beliefs and attitudes of modern society. In America at least, movies and television have macho, tough-guy characters who don't care about "that do-gooder bullshit." Usually they life life concerned only with what's in it for them. They may end up doing the right thing, but not for altruistic reasons. Some have suggested that the prevalence of antihero characters in popular culture has colored people's expectations in politics, for example, and promoted a cynical view of people's motives and personal character.
 
Harke the Boeotarch said:
Very popular in America, almost unknown -before YouTube- in Europe.

Michael Moorcock has the Eternal Champion, not sure where whence he got this idea.

It's also possible Campbell corresponded with people like Tolkien, but I'm not a student of literature (not even in my own language).

What little I've heard is bland and boring. Europe had Jung -who went further- and I'm not sure I even believe him.

Not every hero is Luke Skywalker and not every story has a hero.
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In the meetings and discussions, I had quite the feeling I was participating in something akin to religion, or more simply, outdated, like Freudian theories.

We did often bump into Jung as we studied plots and characters, too.

As for the anti-hero, that has been growing notably in literature and cinema here since WWI, and more dramatically, since Vietnam and Watergate. There has been an active campaign to deconstruct myth as a result of civil rights, including feminism and gay rights.

Although you are correct that it can wax a bit dry, the total study of myth and what it says about psyche and civilization is interesting in limited doses.
 
pigface said:
Modelling your life and decisions on a fictional film character sounds somewhat like a psychiatric problem.
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It's clear that there is a level of fandom that is unfamiliar to me. The adults around me through my childhood enforced the idea that entertainment is a temporary respite from the business of living. Anyone can enjoy a movie, television show, music, or live performances; but when the show is over the expectation is to resume the path of a normal life.

Since June 2024 my online activities has revealed what I call "super fans", who's love for a movie or TV show seems to have no boundaries.

The number of YouTube channels chiming in on the Acolytes cancellation is stunning to behold!

 
NotHardUp1 said:
In the meetings and discussions, I had quite the feeling I was participating in something akin to religion, or more simply, outdated, like Freudian theories.

We did often bump into Jung as we studied plots and characters, too.

As for the anti-hero, that has been growing notably in literature and cinema here since WWI, and more dramatically, since Vietnam and Watergate. There has been an active campaign to deconstruct myth as a result of civil rights, including feminism and gay rights.

Although you are correct that it can wax a bit dry, the total study of myth and what it says about psyche and civilization is interesting in limited doses.
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Jordan Peterson also discussed similar ideas.
 
All I can say is that this young man's YT channel has grown tremendously this year.

 
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