Musings on American Hero Worship, aka, Having Other Gods...

Americans continue to carry with them secular versions of Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christian saintliness and sainthood. I gave up such notions in the 1970s and, as a result, I don't expect much from any economic, political, cultural, or religious figure. However, I realise that humans, particularly humans socialised and enculturated into religious or secular manicheanism and unable to escape that cultural and ideological box, will continue to expect, thanks to simplistic fictional Hollywood or comic book heroes, miracles from their saintly heroes. So while I don't view Biden as the messiah, and find it ludicrous that anyone would regard him as such, and find it absurd that anyone would regard the deeply flawed demagogic bullshitter and flim flam man (I know I am repeating myself here) Trump as a saviour, I know that humans, stuck in adolescent arrested development as they likely will always be, will continue to look for saints, religious or secular, to lead them to nirvana despite the fact that they never do. Cue Einstein's definition of insanity.