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?
And honestly, I have my grave doubts whether our illustrious President and his Generals are the "heroes" they are made out to be. I know for a fact that prominent newpspaper editor Lasanthha Wickramathunge was mysteriously shot dead a week before he was about to do an expose on Army Commander Sarath Fonseka taking bribes and cuts from foreign arms dealers. Of course, that little tid bit didn't even make mainstream news afterwards.
As far as I'm concerned, the real world has no heroes. There all just men and women, and some of them have less humanity than others.
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Date: 2009-05-24 02:32 am (UTC)One of my friends wrote her column in the paper about this same issue - why we don't need heroes.
And honestly, I have my grave doubts whether our illustrious President and his Generals are the "heroes" they are made out to be. I know for a fact that prominent newpspaper editor Lasanthha Wickramathunge was mysteriously shot dead a week before he was about to do an expose on Army Commander Sarath Fonseka taking bribes and cuts from foreign arms dealers. Of course, that little tid bit didn't even make mainstream news afterwards.
As far as I'm concerned, the real world has no heroes. There all just men and women, and some of them have less humanity than others.