> Should we expect this trend to continue, or will we ("educated" "sophisticated" people in Western society) return to celebrating the powerful and the successf

> Should we expect this trend to continue, or will we ("educated" "sophisticated" people in Western society) return to celebrating the powerful and the successful like most other societies before us? False dichotomy. We could celebrate people who exhibit some tenet of higher principles, people we find inspiring. That's often not the same as victimhood or success. I wonder if overuse of false dichotomies is a subset of the passive aggression surge.