I love your analogy of Medusa, mainly because it's so close to the truth. When one evil is killed, it's not long until another evil comes to take its place because it seems like this world can't quite exist without evil.
It's happened every single time - one person acts as the hero and saves the country, the world from a horror, only to turn into a horror themselves later. And weird as it is, that's human nature, isn't it? It seems a million times worse to us because that person is in the public eye and it's generally expected that politicians, leaders, heroes be of superhuman nature.
Maybe it's our own fault for putting people on such a high pedestal. Surely if we didn't make such a big fuss about it all, it wouldn't hit us so hard when things go wrong again?
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Date: 2009-05-19 06:22 pm (UTC)It's happened every single time - one person acts as the hero and saves the country, the world from a horror, only to turn into a horror themselves later. And weird as it is, that's human nature, isn't it? It seems a million times worse to us because that person is in the public eye and it's generally expected that politicians, leaders, heroes be of superhuman nature.
Maybe it's our own fault for putting people on such a high pedestal. Surely if we didn't make such a big fuss about it all, it wouldn't hit us so hard when things go wrong again?