OH , MY HERO !!

The other day I posted a song performed by Tina Turner-We dont need another hero-

The song's lyrical content is written from the perspective of Those being oppressed and not wanting to get up Their hopes in yet another "hero" who may or may not save Them. .

I remembered a text I had already addressed the issue and I decided to reedit it . The focus of the subject

is not in leisure but in behavioral changes brought about by the creations of our minds.At the end of the text I let Tina sing again !

 

 

Somewhere in time I broached the topic of heroes and superheroes.

Bolstered by the knowledge of  cartoonists as Airton Marcelino I could do a little tour through this universe of pleasure , showing its importance within our reality and its evolution according to the changes in customs of our society as a whole.

Now, I try to get back to the topic, perhaps bothered by some aspects that ultimately extrapolated this universe, causing the heroes and superheroes to acquire their own lives within our own lives, transforming the idyll that characterizes the creation of such characters in a compensation tool of our weaknesses and / or personalities complement, or even substitute them in conflict situations.

 

Man has always lived with the myth - (fruit of his own imagination) - to explain realities and processes misunderstood by reason .Though there are many opinions, I believe that the origin of myth and heroes lies in attempts to explain Creation, in Cosmogonies and panspermias.Yet  in composing this collection, many myths and heroes appeared to complete gaps arisen from loss of oral tradition.

Coming out of antiquity, what  we have observed is the rise of super heroes so we can deal with our weaknesses and resignedly disabilities. We created these characters to fight against injustice, against militarism, against oppression, against cunning spirits.

 

I wonder in a moment: Isnt it all our own responsibilities?

Why we refuse to respond to such situations and ,profess inability, expressing a kind of ectoplasm, an 'exo being " that coated everything that we assume to be correct, productive, strong and fair resulting  in a super hero?

The evolution of media and interactivity made ​​these characters stop being just a leisure literature, protagonists or action movies of the "trash" genre to acquire a life of their own parallel universe, a universe that shows itself extremely dangerous for offering communication ports always opened to the real world by simply using  the imagination to cross them.

 

It's weird how we do not settle for  our reality.

The so-called heroes of our world, those who simply give examples of correction and humanity, such as a simple taxi driver who returns a large sum of money forgotten in his car, a firefighter who saves a life in a serious accident, relegated to oblivion, or allowed to the  famous fifteen minutes of fame harnessed and exploited by a thirsty media billing.

No, they are not and they were not heroes

. They practiced common actions.They did not wear fantasies.They did not wear masks nor had biceps that prevented them from combing their hair.

And more: They didn’t punch anyone, nor destroyed cities, or flew chasing the evil  clinging to the walls of buildings.

 

Although we know that we will never be like the characters we create, we create them .

Many people leading  the fiction to the edge of reality , supported by interactivity arisen in  videogames ,assume the fantasy of power, perfection and justice .In a  moment they  fight against   the world that seems to deny them a place of evidence ,and commit the atrocities and "acts of heroism" according to the film that goes on in their head.

Justice done, the classic "The End" or "Next Stage" appears before their eyes .But, whatever "The End" or "Next Stage" mean .They mean the same thing:the Flash of Reality!

 

And the flash of reality tells them that they are not who they claimed to be nor they  did what their eyes see. And so the hero played by a bad actor gives up of the farce and as a last  strategy don’t allow being caught or defeated and commits suicide.

A coward hero? No! That is two weights and two measures.

The hero lives two parallel lives that do not obey the same laws and parameters of existence .So others will  arise.

Starting from the twentieth century with its revolutions, wars and confrontation of political systems the  fertility of super heroes met his best days of fertilization; Superman  fighting against Nazism, Rambo gone  out of the shame of Vietnam rescued American pride, undertaking alone very successfully missions aimed at an army, anyway Rambo was the "one man army" !

 

What makes this picture most hideous, in my view ,is the "law of compensation”. Super heroes need fighting super villains and thus create new forms of evil that are nothing more than the amplification of the evil we know through extended powers and catastrophic  weapons that can only be fought with more destruction. The situation is perpetuated, since the superheroes do not defeat the super villains and vice versa.

Whatever may be the opinion on this phenomenon, ie, whether or not we rely on superheroes that we take for life, their creators update the universe where their creatures operate adapting them to new values​​.

Unless I am mistaken, Marvel launches a new generation of gay super heroes, ,which   sparked many protests as well as adhesions . Stories and film scripts are thought sufficiently in advance in order to arise a new reality that will house new super heroes , or the  same super heroes in other adventures that will be made available in interactive games that will provide a "sumptuous dinner" to enthusiasts.

Some attempts to stop this progress came in the character of "the anti hero”. Not the opportunistic anti hero but one embodied by a silly guy, clumsy, but conscious of the world aberrations, eventually finding a solution.

But the entertainment industry, or even sociology, rather than assign their proper degree of importance labeled  them as "Cult", that pseudo intellectual word that most of the times means nothing .We find exemples in Charles Chaplin, or in the comic Maxwell Smart, Agent 86.

Although in the field of Politically Incorrect , I remember how some societies, like the American, turns real people into heroes or anti heroes as a form of relief or even revenge of situations considered unfair.So, we knew the saga of Bonnie & Clyde and John Dillinger who came to be regarded as a kind of Robin Hood, which never crossed his mind.

I think what strengthens a society are examples of life respected by character , actions based on values ​​that we all know so well . If this leads us to the need to live according to super heroes I do not know.

What I think is that we should stop projecting on these "exo beings" deviations of human behavior patterns and replace them in their original places, as rapporteurs of history, even if mythical, and bring them back to the source of leisure, fun and playful sense of the culture ,making the art his rite.

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