/lit/ - Literature

What makes an epic hero interesting? What is it in the old poems and stories that makes people root for the protagonist and want to see them succeed? In a more modern context and with modern novel sensibilities, how do I make an epic hero semi-relatable and suffer effective character growth on the page?

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> Eventually someone would have come to the same conclusions and written the same insights
Maybe, but it would’ve been someone just like them.

>In fact, if women and POC were allowed to give their insights to the world and not denied education and careers these insights would undoubtedly have been made far more quickly
Colossal cope. Civilizations formed and developed mostly in isolation apart from conflicts with close neighbors and minor sea trade up until the 1600’s. That means that seed nations of ‘POC’ had just as much time to innovate, think, and grow, but they squandered it or simply developed too slowly (mostly due to practices like human sacrifice which killed their brightest people, setting them back hundreds of years).
Also, with affirmative action along with current cultural trends, POC and women have more power and privilege than anyone else in the west, and yet look where we are in finance, morale, and art. We’re more fucked than we’ve ever been.

What insights have women and POC contributed in their recent acquisition of education? Apart of course from the infantile victim-moralizing attempts at art and literature, anecdotal testimony, narrowly sifted history, and worthless cultural minutiae of civilizations which never developed anything of practical or philosophical value?

>awful human beings who contributed more harm than good
You bafoon. You complete and utter philistine. The great minds of history defined the world in which you live. They’re responsible for the creation of the modern luxuries you enjoy and the philosophical concepts that formed our modern governments/social contract. You don’t get to say that they committed more harm because you’re an active participant in their creations. If you want to live in a world without any of that, go move to central Africa or sentinel island you fucking degenerate.