American culture loves the myth of the lone individual hero. It is built into our cultural DNA as a nation and yet it’s not even supported by the evidence of our own history – the West was settled by groups of people not lone individuals; the great industrial advancements of the 1800s and early 1900s were not accomplished by lone geniuses but achieved by people working together who built systems of genius. History shows that it is groups that come together in a common purpose that get the real work done. Nonetheless American ideology and American culture centres on the great, epic heroic male.
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