We are living in unique times.
If usually the keen observer of the history of civilizations finds that the present never offers more than a new echo of the same phenomena since the dawn of time, profound changes can make us believe that we are experiencing an unprecedented turning point.
The end of the hero figure is one of them.
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Consider that, for millennia, our societies were all occupied with the story of the life of great men, whether real or imaginary.
We told each other their actions and their words.
Every event in their life was storytelling.
Jason and the Argonauts
,
The Iliad
or
The Odyssey
presented these beings with an extraordinary destiny.
The epic was the air that every Greek or Roman citizen breathed.
During the Christian era, we can say that the figure of the saint, competed perhaps by the chivalrous gesture, took over from the ancient hero.
The story was then less that of the events themselves than the backdrop serving as an epiphany for
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