Hilary Layne
The Second Story
Modern Heroes Are Weak and Pathetic
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Modern Heroes Are Weak and Pathetic

What happened to our culture that we now find ourselves in a world where heroes are boring?

Heroes have become incredibly boring, I think we can all agree. But why is that? What happened? And what can we do about it?

**correction: Rambo First Blood came out in 1982, not 1972, my apologies.

Chapters as they appear on Youtube:

0:00 — Intro
1:43 — Defining “Hero”
4:16 — The Moral Factor
8:32 — The Emotional Factor?
15:55 — The Allure of the Amoral
18:28 — Benjamin Martin - Flawed Hero
23:20 — Rambo - The Not-Antihero
27:32 — Attack on Titan’s Morality
31:24 — Sensitivity & Politics
34:55 — Faux Antiheroes
38:35 — What to Remember


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