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To: Dayuhan who wrote (58327)	10/10/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>I can imagine no impulse baser, or more dangerous.< And the would-be dictators knew this. "Our honor is named Loyalty" is graven on those ceremonial SS daggers.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (58327)	10/10/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: Michael M	Respond to of 108807

George Washington didn't make it through his lifetime without telling a lie. And, yet -- the fact that millions of little kids (once upon a time) were told that he never lied probably had a beneficial effect. I think heroes are a good thing. Better than bonding with the anti-hero, the misfit, the misunderstood and the cool dude with great abs with a middle digit in the face of every boring slob with a 9-5 and a mortgage.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (58327)	10/11/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Steven, here is a preliminary response to your post about hero-worship. It deserves a little more thought than I can give it right now, and so I will probably get back to it. I sort of agree with Michael M. I think much depends on WHAT you admire your "hero" for. (And on whether you are willing to admit that he -- or she -- had some human failings.) Do you admire "Z" for being honest, kind, self-sacrificing, and wise? Well, even if "Z" in reality was not quite all the things you think he was, the fact is that the qualities you admired in him are well worth admiring. And if you want to emulate "Z," you will try to cultivate those qualities you think (perhaps mistakenly) that he had. And that would be all to the good. I must re-read Carlyle's book on hero worship. All I can remember about that book is that I read it -- another sign of old age. :-( Joan