What is a Hero?

So, there's a new project in the wings, one that centralizes on a key question: what is a hero?

We all need heroes. Like it or not, there's always someone we try to emulate, someone we look up to; and I want to know what characteristics define that person.

What makes a little boy pick up and stick and pretend to slay dragons? Is it because his hero is a Luke Skywalker, the anointed chosen one? Or is it because his hero is simply a good man? Would someone be less of a hero if they learned that they were not, as previously supposed, preordained to save the world?

Abraham Lincoln is an icon of mine, and I feel that what gets lost in his deification (the Lincoln Memorial was designed to look like the Temple of Zeus) is that Abraham Lincoln was a good, good man. Would he be less of a good man if he'd never won the presidency? Probably not, in my view. But, at the same time, I would have never heard of him.

It's basically going to be a deconstruction of the idea of a hero, and I look forward to bringing it to you.