I see Chris Arnade has turned out to be exactly who Chris Arnade always seemed to be
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The Free Press
“A society should never entirely dismiss the appeal of the hero archetype, especially in the way it resonates with younger men,” Chris Arnade writes in The FP: thefp.pub/4gIB0re
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But....we also learn that basically all of life and also most of springsteens songs are about realizing that isn't possible and figuring out how to deal w it
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As a person with a few military crosses from various wars in my safe, real heroes never intended to be heroes, don't consider themselves heroes, and resent anyone that calls them that or brings it up.
They think the behavior is normal and aren't looking for social cache for their actions.
There are heroes doing heroic things everyday wo it being mentioned.
Mr. Rogers called them the helpers-and they surround us.
Whoah.
Guy is doing gods work.
The far right r fakers. Real men honor equality.
Oh, not exciting enough? No one bought you drinks for finishing a shift, making dinner, and changing your kid's diaper? Yeah, me neither, but I didn't use it as an excuse to vote for fascism.
Wanting to be seen, valued, recognized, thanked? That's not a Man Feeling. That's a HUMAN Feeling. We ALL want that. We all NEED that. It's an intrinsic post of being in a community.
Wtf, Trump. It's been 3 weeks and I'm still commuting to my lousy job.
Or have them all move to NYC. I understand that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere and that's kinda, sorta, like being a hero. ( apologies to NYC, but I have faith you'd sort them out).
But warner has a Heinz fortune why would he GAF about us?
Funny how all these would-be heroes never have their "Wait--are we the baddies?" moment.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58438592-fight-like-hell
still, to see the concern about kids in cages in 2019 to continuing that policy for 5 years and then to attack republicans on immigration *from the right* is a big example of the party just not having principles
I have reservations about hero worship but did not jump to a racial interpretation reading this.
But right now it's *not* "the economy". It's preserving democracy, stupid. And the public at large doesn't realize it because Schumer et al. refuse to act like it.
What's really interesting to me is the idealized subject is a blue collar guy but like, it's never an *actual* blue collar guy. THOSE guys might do distasteful things like "join a union" or "use SNAP". So it's all white collar guys imagining how cool they'd be if they were blue collar
Blue collar =/= taking the bus to your job at a factory and then your job at a grocery store
The aesthetics of NASCAR, F-150s, diners, John Deere caps, college football—none of these things prevent understanding Donald Trump as malignant or seeing other people as valid and worthy weft of the American fabric
Such goddamn frauds
Everyone has "dark" impulses. Simply valorizing them doesn't make you a "hero". Or even a "man" really - everyone includes women.
Turning them into a politics is about as "anti-hero" as one could get.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/meet-ted-cruz-karl-rove-jeff-roe/
Generally speaking, I think any piece that postulates wide generalizations like this aren't worth my time 🤷♀️