The trend that you are talking about is Fascinating to me and runs REALLY deep in the human psyche. If you watch ESPN's new 10 part documentary on Michael Jord

The trend that you are talking about is Fascinating to me and runs REALLY deep in the human psyche. If you watch ESPN's new 10 part documentary on Michael Jordan, you can see the same deconstruction. My interpretation of the thesis was, that despite Jordan's greatness, his success was derived from a competitive drive and massive ego that it really should qualify as some type of mental disorder. And his method for success would not result in a happy life for most people, and didn't really for him either. We should pity Jordan. All that is kind of typical, but what is really shocking is that this documentary was essentially produced BY HIM. So the desire to deconstruct our hero mythology is even present in our "heroes" themselves.