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Once, Michael Jordan was greatness. We had hero after hero showing us all what could be done.
Today, we have these people acting as greatness. They're not. They're weak men with small minds. Nothing they do could ever survive the field of battle.
I don't want to be part of technology anymore. It's boring and everything it does is a worse form of something we already did.
Part of the problem might be that the example of a better hero is just some sports player. While there are things to admire about that level of dedication to something, there's nothing heroic about playing sports.
Though the problem isn't so much that sports icons are treated as heroes at all but that I can't really think of any good heroes to look up to outside of fiction.
Though I also think that maybe we should look up to deeds rather than people, since when it's a person, that person's flaws become part of the question, but it's really the deeds that should be emulated anyways, even for the ones that didn't have some massive disqualifying flaw come out.
Like if you want to be more like Mr Rogers and do it by just wearing sweater vests and changing shoes when you come inside, you're missing the point.
Similarly, if a serial killer rushes into a burning building to save a kid and their cat, that's still admirable, even if it doesn't get them across the line to "ok person overall".