We don’t need another hero
We don’t need another hero
- April 8, 2026
- David Meyer, sociologist, shares perspective with Print
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“Statues and commemorations are about the present, not about the past. We set up these people to give us guidance for the future, and that’s always going to be an image that distorts the historical reality,” said David Meyer, author of the book How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter. “We take something big and condense it down to a single person, and we are vulnerable because no human being can live up to all the expectations we lay on those heroes,” adds Meyer, who teaches sociology and political science at the University of California, Irvine.
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