At one time, parents, the “village”, popular mythology such as comics and novels did this. Many great men have been launched by Plotarch’s Lives. Its been said that much of Shakespear was so inspired. But times have deteriorated.
In a time of political correctness the hero, the champion, has been mocked out of existence by effete pseudo intellectual critics, who mock the standards they can little comprehend and never meet. Yeats said after WWI..
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The worst have the passionate intensity of an eunuch, for they have been spiritually and intellectually castrated. The ceremony of innocence has not been so much drowned, as it has been perverted by a system that confuses brain-washing with education.
And the best will never lack for conviction, though they are vastly outnumbered, because they have…
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