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Great essay. I think that we need to recover the heroic in Christian terms. The men's movement surely need it, and I think we need to appropriate the perennial heroic aspirations of (especially) men more explicitly in Christianity, or show more clearly that it's already there, especially after the Jordan Peterson movement. There's something in the Reformation's "affirmation of ordinary life" as Charles Taylor calls it, that is anxiously anti-Heroic. Both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche were appalled by this, and both suggested solutions that were most likely inadequate.

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David - the Scorsese link seems to be broken?

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022

Fascinating thoughts. I had thought of the connection between superheroes and myth, as I'm sure everyone and their grandmother has pointed out - but I didn't think what that mythic-ness meant. Certainly not as we look back on the myths of old, but as how the people of antiquity saw their myths. Thanks for the thought provoking insights

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