But Tacey believes the root of heroism is moral leadership - thus our current yearning. The hero is somebody who makes society remember it is also a community. A hero is someone who says these are our basic values, this is what we believe in, this is what's worth living for and dying for. And then society transforms itself. Until a universal leader emerges, heroes are doomed to be slugging it out with celebrities.
People can jump from one camp to the other.
Phil Barker, the editor of NW , says readers of his magazine take its idols as role models. I would suspect there is not a lot of need for these women to have a hero. All rights reserved.