The truth-telling hero and the lying
anti-hero were the standard in Western culture until after the two
World Wars when both high and low culture mutated from the hero to
the anti-hero.
That was no small change, the lying
anti-hero conquered in the popular media and in the academic world.
Now heroes who tell the truth are seen as simpletons and liars are
seen as geniuses. You have to watch family and G-movies to find any
truth-telling heroes, although they are usually presented with
gagging syrupy sweetness. And in the academic world post-modernism
preaches that it is naive to think in terms of heroes and anti-heroes
since there is no real right or wrong.
These preferences seem to relate
generally to the northern and southern hemispheres, or it could be
the difference between warrior and non-warrior cultures, where
warrior cultures are taught to shoot strait and tell the truth, and
non-warrior cultures do good business in the bazaars by lying.
Even so, I'm not advocating that one or
the other of these conquer, they are both
biologically and culturally activated and are best separated with
ethnopluralism where human nature can more harmoniously proceed.
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