[lit-ideas] Re: Follow Up to Fly in the Fly-Bottle

I was wondering why I wrote what I wrote. It came to me that the adoption of heroes is not something I understand well. In the old days the choice of heroes was a limited one--choose among the locals. Now we are told that we live in a media-rich culture--what a term--and that, far from the green valleys in which we once hacked coal or made sho-fly art, we are now at the mercy of media. At the same time, we learn that the media's powers are Lear-like, and we're not talking jets. 

So, heroes.

Was Popper a hero, and for whom?

I'm wondering how Donal came to be a supporter of said person and why?

I'm wondering if I have any such remaining allegiances.

Do others?

David Ritchie,
coming to terms on a Pendleton blanket, with awkward questions in
Portland, Oregon
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