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Killing Heroes

Carl Jung's idea of archetypes inherited as unconscious images, ideas, or thoughts, are retained in our genetic memories through our common experiences.

Those images include both heroes and demons. If we are robbed of our heroes we are left with our demons.

Our first heroes are those who rescue us from the elements, hunger and pain.

"The legacy of heroes — the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example." — Benjamin Disraeli

Presumably our parents and caregivers, even brothers and sisters.

Their sacrifices made for us, enforce the heroic pattern in our own DNA.

Heroes reveal and reaffirm our values and moral qualities reinforcing our views of right and wrong. Our popular stories and fables serve a didactic purpose, showing us the desired behaviors that are needed to succeed in life and society, and defeat those demons.

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future.” — Elie Wisel

Heroes grow in us as we grow to become adults.

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men." — Minot J. Savage

They are our model and cause to physically reject the qualities of those who fall short of those heroic dynamics.

Heroes save us and are admired. If we are to receive approval and admiration it is the superhero who becomes our inspired model. Or just society’s heroic protectors – police officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, paramedics, or soldiers.

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." — G.K. Chesterton

Life's problems are common experiences for society. Heroes are likely by their stories inspire us to overcome whatever adversity may be required to face.

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." — Theodore Roosevelt

Their stories strengthen us emotionally and spiritually before disaster occurs.

They give us hope from a reservoir that is independent of our own experiences. That hope can give us light in the dark places of fear and loneliness.

The stories and adventures of the heroes of our history may overtime reinforce our merely learned moral ethics. By the instilling in individuals those essential social values through stories repeating in our minds and dreams until a psychological and emotional pattern of faith is ingrained within us.

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." — Elmer Davis

Knowing the stories of those who faced death in the trials of our past history gives us their courage to face the trials of our present. Hearing the tales of heroes told in admiration and reverence imparts a sense of immortality at least to them. Hearing of the courage and sacrifice of the heroes from our past who survive in the admiration of our fathers and mothers, the heroes of our own childhood, allows us to grow in the light and memory of their courage without fear so that our own sacrifices do not give way to those demons that feed upon fear in the day of our own trial.

"There can be no mercy without truth."

The heroic myth are not mere entertainment but reset the human mind to those honored patterns of our past which can give our personal freedom meaning and a singularity of purpose which spans history of humanity.

Heroes have solutions which save society through willing services and sacrifice.

Heroes have one or more social virtues like wisdom, courage, patience, mercy, or desire for justice. They tend to the weightier matters of righteousness

To kill the heroes of our history or those heroes and heroins of our myths and medias is to kill the natural development of our youth, our next generations.

Destroying the heroes of our histories we are left at the mercy of and Demons and Devils who know not mercy.