Showing posts with label Marlene Guest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marlene Guest. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 June 2018
Monday, 28 May 2018
HERO-WORSHIP AND TOMMYTARDS
The
True Right has always believed in strong leadership and the ability, as
Thomas Carlyle wrote, of 'great men' to shape history. In his
collection of lectures On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History,
Carlyle identifies six types of hero: the Hero as Divintity, as
Prophet, as Poet, as Priest, as Man of Letters and as King. This is not limited to the Right, for the Left also has its heroes: its revolutionaries and men of theory. What we have seen since the 1960s is a new breed of hero that has emerged, firstly on the Left, but now increasingly on the Right: the Hero as Activist. The activist's name on everyone's lips at the moment, especially since his recent arrest and imprisonment, is Tommy Morrison, but is he a hero and will he shape history?
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