By the modern definition of hero, there aren't any. There can't really be any. I mean, there never were heroes anyway, just people who did heroic things [in a

By the modern definition of hero, there aren't any. There can't really be any. I mean, there never were heroes anyway, just people who did heroic things [in addition to the other less-than-heroic things that they did] -- but having heroes requires also believing in things that one can be heroic about. Having values and virtues that can actually be expressed.