Am I missing something? Look who they are feeding us as Hero’s! In the history of the world there are legends and stories about heroes in every culture. The Scandinavians have the Viking Sagas – Ragnar Lothbrok, Raven Floki (Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson). The UK has a vast history with everyone from Robin Hood to Joan of Arc to Sir William Wallace to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
All culture’s have hero’s, some that they wright songs and poems about. For generation’s we hear the stories as the person passes into legend. Remarkable times create remarkable people where the people, who have got to the top though politics, are replaced by people that can deliver results in times of need.
In my generation we have seen people who put their lives on the line to move humanity forward and in some cases paid the ultimate price. People who have stepped up to be leaders in the world moving us away from the brink of tyranny.
These are people willing to put everything they have on the line to the betterment of other people. People who are keen to fight the status quo of complacency and corruption to make the world a better place for all of us. It is looking like it will be time for leaders to rise up again and embed their names in legend.
Think from 2000 onward who would meet this high bar? Who will history remember from this time? More important are you on the right side of history? Put you opinion in the comments below.
17 replies on “My Hero’s Are Way Better Than Yours”
I am assuming you found this image and did not create it yourself. If that is so, I think it is quite telling that Amelia Earhart and Margaret Thacher are not heroes on the left side of the picture, as women who did amazing things not commonly done by women. Amelia should be a hero to the left, while I can understand them not liking Thatcher’s conservative political views.
On the other hand, the picture has two people on the left that haven’t really done anything that merit heroism (Greta and AOC) one that is just a shill (Kap) and two that don’t actually exist (comic gays).
To top that off, it should be “heroes” not “hero’s”. You have multiple “heroes” (scare quotes), not a hero that possesses you, as they don’t really possess much of anything.
Firstly I create all my own memes and banners – have a read of my other posts I demonstrate this. With this one I actually struggled to find people for the “left hand side” – as you point out I struggled to find anyone who achieved something special.
On my side of the the picture I wanted to add Richard Pearse, Bert Monroe, Alan Shepard, the Apollo 11 guys, General Bernard Montgomery, Sir Roger Douglas and, even the politically incorrect in his own time, General Georges S Patten, and the list goes on. I put in those three wonderful astronauts because every time I think about them in makes me cry.
Ironically everyone has assumed this is a jab at left and right politics – it is not it is a reflection of old vs. young. The other day My Granddaughter gave me a home made birthday card to thanks me for coming to her birthday (she hasn’t quite got the concept yet). She drew a picture of me and her in the card. I said to my daughter “I look like Roy Orbison in the picture” she said “who Is Roy Orbison?” She has his music on her iPad!!! You ask any young person about Jimmy Doolittle and you will be asked “is that Dr. Doolittle?”
Sadly when Margaret Thatcher died young people were posting on facebook “ding dong the witch is dead” often not understanding who she was and how important what she did was. It is not just about her being the first female Prime Minster in the UK it is her incredible achievements under the circumstances – when none of the other feckless men in the British Parliament had the intestinal fortitude to fix things that were clearly broken.
Karl I have a challenge for you put the picture in front of five 20 year olds and see how many people they can name on each side – then come back and give me a hard time it you want – assuming they can name them all.
All of the people on the left are thrust at up in the media as the people that this generation should look up to. The world is currently building the strategy on “climate change” around the rantings of a mentally ill teenager. Something has gone wrong when this happens.
As you point out Superman is not a hero – he is a superhero – and not actually real as you also point out. However he was always portrayed as the holder of virtue and all that is right and just. Now it turns out to be right and just you need to also kiss blokes. Yeah, Ok, not my thing.
I am always amused when an American (I assume you are American) corrects the english of a person from the British Empire – however in this case I believe you are correct – thank you for that.
I am concerned you have missed my point (which I understand in this politically polarised time). We are shaped by the heroes that are put in front of us – I was. Sure Bruce Jenner is an olympic hero – that I can respect. However is Caitlyn Jenner a bigger hero because he now wears a frock? I think he peaked at the Olympics.
On my side four of those people died while doing genuinely heroic things the rest of them narrowly escaped death in a quest to make us safe (and holy crap Chuck Yeager is just the coolest man in the history of the world) – so I hold firm on my quote “My Hero’s [sic] are way better than yours”. I am talking to young people that only see what the media shows them.
Thank you for reading my post and putting in a comment.
I think you misunderstood some of my post as well. Initially I thought you took a poster and were commenting on the lack of what the left’s heroes had done.
That you meant this as a generational vs political look I completely missed. What I mostly saw was a group of people that are famous while not doing much of anything vs a group that somewhat are not famous, at least not any more, while they actually did do something, and something important.
I do agree with you that which heroes we look up to says a lot about us and the direction we are going. I think we should expect younger people will not visually identify people we know but the same would be said about us and those our parents and grand parents knew.
Karl – fantastic response – as you know this is why more speech is so important – you and are completely aligned. You eluded to another really good point about parents and grand parents. When I was young my father gave me a “boys annual” (a very British thing) on Sir Winston Churchill – it was the first book I read when I was first able to read.
My Father and I watched moon landings and he brought home a magazine about the new space shuttle – I think in 1980 (we were a national socialist country in those days so getting American magazines in those days was hard).
He was a big fan of General George S Patten and his “pearl handled revolvers” he loved telling me that the general had said in a interview “They are not pearl handles, pearls are for woman the are ivory” Hmmmm… cos thats obviously better!
It is not just the job of schools and media it is parents and grand parents that can shape a person by sharing heroes with them. This is a point I didn’t make in the blog.
Again thank you for your comments
Your comment about parents shaping children is one of the things we’re addressing here, in parts of America. Some people have indicated they think it is the job of the school to shape the kids, and I think the Trio have commented on one such person’s shared remark that if it wasn’t for schools more kids would grow up like their parents… as if that was a bad thing.
That is so disgusting – I was talking with a friend in the US he was telling me how by having children schooled from home has allowed parents to hear what is being taught – in effect outing the lefties and their agenda – it will be an interesting 5 years! I love it when people outwit themselves.
What made me write this is I was at a craft bar in Coffs Harbour in NSW Australia and this was a painted mural on the wall – I was the only person who knew who it was. This is the man who put a nail in the coffin of communism – last time (and lived to tell about it). The bar owner was obviously Polish.
Lech Walasea🙂
Nailed it – interestingly I was just watching interviews with Canadian truckers and the majority of the ones they interviewed had Eastern Block accents. Once you have experienced Communism you don’t want to go back there – I imagine Bill’s wife is the same way.
Heroes in the 2000’s? Well, I’d start with the NYC firefighters who responded to the 9/11 attack. The passengers who fought back on Flight 93. The Canadian Truckers for Freedom. The Frontline Doctors. Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone, and all the dissident doctors who have fought against the lies and false narratives of Covid, risking their livelihoods to save lives. People the politicians are trying to destroy, who have the courage to stand up all across the globe, not merely fighting for their own, but everyone’s freedom and rights. Kyle Rittenhouse. Donald Trump. Bill, Steve, Scott and Zo are also heroes for standing up for truth, morality and our American constitution, putting out content that has changed who knows how many minds, and the many they have encouraged and fortified by their messages. And finally, all the unsung heroes known only to a few. Someone, somewhere everyday commits an act of heroism no one may ever know about. I salute them all.
Dead on Dindy – so how have we let it happen that on the mainstream media these wonderful hero’s are not covered positively – I am hoping Truth Social (when it finally comes) will address some of the imbalance. My point is we need to take back the hero space and see the a generation of young people look up to people that deserve the title.
I don’t watch mainstream media, and haven’t for nearly a decade, but MSM can’t be considered in any way a news source, much less an unbiased news source, and I’m sure I don’t need to tell you why. The legacy media trumpets propaganda for its side, left or right, hailing as heroes whoever epitomizes the correct ideology as the picture you posted portrays. Schools and churches don’t teach it. Prager U is way more likely to extol true heroes, and Mike Rowe’s podcast, The Way I Heard It. I’m sure there are many more independent producers – well, heck, our own Bill and Daily Wire are doing it. But mainstream media – naw, that isn’t happening.
Again you have nailed it – this is my point – how to we reclaim the attention of the people – Fox and doing a good job of this but we saw their true colours during the election. How do we get Bill and the other esteemed gentlemen out there with coverage like Joe Rogan and PragerU?
Those whos heroes are on the left probably don’t even know who the heroes on the right are.
I see what you did there 😉
We have lost control of the message – how do we get it back? if there isn’t a plan there isn’t a chance we will beat this.
Attempting to take control of parts of culture is a start (think the colonies idea or the movies that Daily Wire is doing for examples) but we need to get active on the local level and push this garbage back on every front that is reasonably possible.