Why Do We Idolize Superheroes, and Should We? | Lawrence Raia | TEDxYouth@SRDS
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2016
- Sharing personal stories of the impact that superheroes have had on his life, Lawrence Raia explores our cultural obsession with superheroes, and what role it plays in helping us connect with real life heroes.
Lawrence is a junior who has a deep and unending passion for the beautiful world of comics. Self-identifying as the progeny of Batman, Lawrence will talk to you today about why we idolize superheroes. He will talk about why they are entirely necessary to our world.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
"Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom." ~Herbert Spencer
I think this quote is more applicable in the world today.
Good quote and a very pertinent one.
We idolize superheroes because they take care of major catastrophes and do cool things for justice. Marvel and DC created superheroes because they are a reflection on WWII.
Believing in Heroes is good but after point I think we lost the true meaning of the word "Hero". The ancient writers said that a true Hero can die while achieving something. A true Hero is not perfect and above all not divine. Of course you could say that Batman is not divine but yes he is, he is a millionair, a genious and handsome 6'4" guy, no one is like that. The thing i miss from todays Heros that they to much a dream.
András V Aggre . Most TV heroes lack realism. It's logical that to be called a hero, you'll need to be something more than usual... But it seems like that in TV heroes are "too much" more than usual, more than normal. Maybe that's the reason why kids are more prone to idolize those kind of heroes.
Right back when Hera was the Goddess and heroes were "transgressive and transformative"-Greek Drama for Modern Audiences
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@@Ella795 I believe Disney's Hercules said it best "A true hero isn't measured by the courage or strength but by the strength by his or her heart." This is what heros today are lacking it has nothing to do with realism or logic, in fact I believe shoving too much realism into them is what is wrong. In order to be hero you have to be optimistic or else nobody would believe in you and neither would you believe yourself and only be logical for when it is needed. They aren't suppose to be too realistic as these heros are symbols of hope.
Even Batman isn't that logical he does what he does based on an ideal that he truly believes in. Which is why everyone keeps arguing about him not killing or using guns because if he does Batman then fails in his mission.
This world needs a hero I'm not saying a Alien or something like Thor or Batman but someone who can go out and clean up the streets
Police u mean?
@@seeme6289 police are FAR from that lmao
Oh you mean someone who kills poor people cause you don’t like them?
well done good speach
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I typed into RUclips 'how to cure superhero obsession' and unfortunately this video diddnt help
But it has made me realise I can just get fit and get a rope attached to the celling so I can be spidergirl, or at least as close as I can get
(Spiderman/girl because I like climing and it looks the easiest and most possible, I still wish I could be shazam or superman though cos they can fly but sadly that's impossible and gliding isn't the same)
It’s still not bad to worship fictional characters they can help make real world heroes and if not there nothing to be ashamed of
Does humanity need super heroes? Yes.
Does humanity deserve super heroes? No.
Imagine being a super hero and having to clean up the messes people keep making again and again and again and again because they simply refuse to learn from their mistakes so they could avoid making those same mistakes again in the future.
Just so you know, the public themselves or someone that represents them even the most controversial where most agree with something logically unjust, have served as great opponents or assistance to villains of some of the greatest heroes of all time in different mediums, one example is Kamen Rider, the original ones specifically.
Who's the host? He's handsome
Idolatry always leads to damnation and perdition.
We don't need "Imaginary Heroes", we need "Realistic Education".
Because We are extremely childish, we are not able and we don't even want to think about what reality really is, so we create all kinds of misconception to keep us living in our imaginary world, thus we have religion, foolish beliefs that distort real beliefs and movies about non-existing Justice and superheroes
I've never been interested in superhero movies because I think it is like wishful thinking. Subconsciously hoping that someone will come and save us from ourselves. There are way too many problems in this world and I don't see us, humanity, taking the necessary steps to solve them. Meanwhile we spend billions of dollars on superhero movies, not only in producing them, but in watching them. Some of that money could have gone to other causes. Of course the same applies to other forms of mass entertainment.
so your comment is basically useless lol, good waste of time, its like walking in circles
The movies make people happy
Grow up to be fictitious…!
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Stop it, get some help