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The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.

https://professionalsoutherner.com/2025/03/04/the-problem-of-the-hero/

People waiting around being miserable, suffering, and dying, waiting for the cavalry to arrive, or a small group of superheroes, or a lone man coming to the rescue.

It portrays Americans as a passive people letting others step forward & do the hard stuff.

Perlmutter, a major GOP donor, is the former owner of several movie franchises like the Marvel Universe.

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