What is a hero? It is only at a certain time, a specific event occurs, giving a specific name to a specific person.
What about after some specific period has passed? People don't need some help from a hero, and if they live a little longer, how many people will remember a hero and what he did. In most of the ordinary life, what is the use of having heroes? In a stable life, in the consciousness of some people, the hero is a destabilizing factor left over after the elimination of the disaster, a time bomb that destroys their peaceful life.
I remember a story: one day, a hero came to a village. Ask the villagers there, do you have anything you need my help with? The villager replied that there is a tiger in the mountains, and you should help us get rid of it. So the hero rescued the mountain and removed the tiger. Back in the village, the hero asks the villagers, is there anything else he needs help with? The villagers told him that there was a vicious dragon in the waterhole, and you should help us get rid of it! The hero went to the waterhole and helped them get rid of the evil dragon. On their return, warmly cheered by the villagers, people feasted on the hero's victory, and cheered that the two scourges that threatened their lives had been removed. During the meal, the hero once again asked the villagers, is there anything else I need to help you? The villagers gave him the answer that the hero would kill himself. When the hero walked out of the village and took the third step, the hero fell, and in the celebration wine that the hero drank, he was poisoned by the villagers.
People want a plain and stable life, and they don't need heroes to appear. Even if there are heroes, those who give their lives to let them live a simple and stable life, how long can they survive in people's hearts? They forgot how longed they were in times of crisis for someone who could help them, save them from the sea of suffering, and help them get rid of all that unbearable thing. Maybe it was their sincere call, their incessant prayer day and night, that touched the gods in the darkness, and that such a person appeared, helped them out of their predicament, got them out of danger, and they said that the person who helped them was a hero. What about after the peace of the world? What happens to the hero? Unemployed, of course. What can a hero do in the Taiping world? They will be heroes, they can save humanity and help people move towards a new life. They have heroic skills, but they don't have the skills to survive in a new society, a new environment, built with their help. Perhaps, in the new environment they have built, they will not even be able to find a job. Yes, the hero is unemployed.
From ancient times to the present, how many heroes have appeared. How many people are well remembered? Is he a hero or not? You don't know, and I don't know. Only those who were in that period knew, or perhaps they didn't. These heroes, these stories may be heard from other people, or found in some scholars in ancient books, inferred from some broken ancient books and antiquities, woven into a heroic story that can be sung and wept, and published to the public. There are real parts and false parts in those stories. Heroes! It is a glorious word, and in some stories, those who spread the story will erase the shortcomings of the heroes. Because he is not just a simple person now, he is called a hero, a hero is an object of respect, admiration, and learning, and there should be no stain on them. Communicators will have their language, making the hero a perfect being.
It is often said that people are forgetful, and after a while they will forget who helped them and who saved them, only because they have been safe and freed from danger. Even the original people have not forgotten them, because they have come out of the depths of the water, have experienced that pain, that despair, and will remember the person, the person who helped them, the hero in their hearts. A hero can influence one generation, two generations, three generations, but what about the fourth generation? How many others will remember them? Some people may say that if you help others once, do you have to remember them for the rest of your life? There is nothing wrong with that.
If you can help others to be a hero once, then heroes are everywhere, and it is too worthless, right? Would a true hero care about that? True heroes don't care about these false names. In the long stream of history, I don't know how many heroes have been buried, famous, nameless, known, and unknown. Perhaps, among the heroes who are buried, the unknown heroes who are not well known are far more than the heroes who have always been known and praised by people.
Today's society is a society in which heroes are extremely poor. Even if you catch a thief, you can only say that you are a hero. Why is it so simple to get the title of a hero? Maybe the threshold for obtaining the title of hero has been lowered, or maybe in this society, people can't find the existence of a real hero. The hero is nameless, he is not known to the world, nor is he discovered by the world. But this is also good, the chaotic world produces heroes, there are no heroes, indicating that we are a peaceful and prosperous world! Is it that in the chaotic world, heroes are more famous and easier to be discovered, while in the Taiping world, heroes are not easy to be discovered by us, not easy to be famous?
Now, where are our heroes? In film and television works, a story is filmed and filmed, changed and changed. The change in the storyline is not based on facts, and it is not better to show the heroic deeds that really existed at that time. It's about catering to the tastes of the audience, what do most viewers like? They add something to the film and television in order to make the audience like and make the audience satisfied, so that they can get more benefits. If you can't find a real hero in reality, what kind of real hero is found in film and television? Some virtual heroes such as Ultraman, Superman, Monkey King, etc. Go around and ask, maybe some people don't know who Jing Ke is? But definitely not knowing who Son Goku is?
Is this society too short of heroes? Or we haven't found any traces of those heroes.