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A Working Class Hero is Something to Be

Nancy Gibbs has a great essay in this week's Time magazine called "Do-It-Yourself Heroes" where she discusses three regular people who have been catapulted to hero status in the media as of late: Captain (Sully) Sullenberger, Captain Richard Phillips (the guy who offered himself up to pirates), and Susan Boyle, the English Youtube singer-lady.

Best passage:
"It's so much better to discover that Superman could be anyone; that everywhere you look, there are hidden reserves of majesty and honor and genius and luck. [emphasis mine.] The stories wouldn't have worked if Susan Boyle had been a yuppie barrister or Phillips a SEAL himself. Their normality gives them wings."


Happy Friday, everyone!

posted by Mike @ 8:52 AM