Theos-Talk Archives (November 2004 Message tt00227)

I would like to see a copy when it is finished.
--j

Regina St Clare wrote:

>My play has a victim who becomes a hero when he realizes what his conscience is telling him...and his grandfather is a living sage, one who waits for the young man to prepare to carry on his destiny as a new kind of world leader--a retelling of the magic flute story for our times.
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>-- "adelasie" <adelasie@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>Hi Jerry,
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>Yes, you could say we live in cynical times. Perhaps if we didn't 
>call it "hero," which has a connotation of someone almost superhuman, 
>someone we look up to, but rather stressed the idea of becoming 
>conscious of the qualities in others, those fallible people in our 
>daily lives, who possess some quality we admire. Our cultural love 
>affair with the media, with entertainment, has sort of provided the 
>impossible definition of "hero," Superman, Batman, etc (interesting 
>how little children love that stuff, and how we all kind of long to 
>love it--hearkens back to the Gods on Olympus or something maybe) and 
>that very overstatement makes the word, the concept, a parody of 
>itself. Still, I think we do look up to certain public figures. 
>Perhaps what is happening is that the old concept of "god," the 
>original superhero, is morphing into a more inclusive awareness of 
>the divinity in everyone. 
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>Adelasie
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>On 16 Nov 2004 at 10:50, Jerry Hejka-Ekins wrote:
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>>Hello Adelasia,
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>>There was a time when "the hero" filled that function of teacher and
>>exemplar. The hero was the person who demonstrated excellence in some
>>area and modeled one or more virtues. When I first started teaching
>>college composition courses, I had a list of questions for students to
>>respond. Among them was "who is your hero and why?" I found out
>>quickly that, except for an occasional essay about the student's
>>mother or father, most would answer that they don't have a hero. They
>>would explain that whenever someone is offered as a hero, within a
>>short time, some scandal about them hits the news and exposes them for
>>what they are. I think it a sad commentary about our times.
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>>--j
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