> On 2 Apr, 16:26, Kisai gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> On Apr 2, 4:04 am, The Speaking Clock live.co.uk> wrote:

>

>>> A classic hero brought low by a small thing.  Now I have the song 'no
>>> more hero's anymore' going round in my brain.  Whatever happened to
>>> the hero's?  Have people in modern times become more cowardly as they
>>> grew more comfortable, and less willing to face the inevitable fact of
>>> death?

>

>> People put forth heroes precisely so that the hero may face death
>> before the peoples.  They're kind of like elder siblings in that
>> regard..

>

>> It's just a puppet show before the main event.

>
> Matadors are that sort of hero to the Spanish people.  I'm not sure if
> they fit Tom's idea of what a hero is - someone who throws themself
> away for a higher purpose.  Then again, maybe if they are conscious of
> their role - as someone who faces death so that people can see how to
> confront it - then maybe they do (fit Tom's idea of a hero).  I'm not
> familiar enough with the values of matadors to know.