Meh, more harm is done by Great Man Theory and hero worship than "outrage culture". It's not so difficult to separate the good from the bad. None of the people

Meh, more harm is done by Great Man Theory and hero worship than "outrage culture". It's not so difficult to separate the good from the bad. None of the people you mentioned are really role models, aside from in a very abstract sense, and the worship is truly harmful. I mean, putting Churchill on a pound note (I think?) really says something. Not that we all don't have war criminals on our bills, but what are his redeeming parts? If he led the UK through WWII it was only because he failed to execute on his best-laid plans. What are you saying to your citizens that you offer them as a role model.... a nasty man with a highly developed sense of cruelty. Calling him a British hitler is not unreasonable: he repeatedly argued for racial hierarchies and dominating weaker races by force. I believe at one point he even had a plan to invade Norway before it was scrapped for reasons outside his control. As a role model, he is terrible. Obviously with Gandhi and MLK it's not hard to find good lessons, but I really wouldn't emulate either of them. Both had fairly unhappy family lives and didn't have what you might consider a healthy social life. They both had issues with bigotry and, you know, normal human problems. My point is, these are not great men, but they did hugely influential things we remember today. Why not just focus on the action and retire the men to a secondary role? None of these people were able to execute a fraction of their plans by themselves. We really have no need for great men aside from blockbusters, fantasizing about how great you are, and to feed nationalist desires for an impossibly good authoritative power.