“..we’ve lost plenty of heroes to drugs and suicide, everyone from Kurt Cobain to River Phoenix to Chris Cornell....”
Kurt Cobain?? Hero??? River Phoenix?? Hero?? Chris Cornell?? Hero??
Damn this guy sets the “hero” bar pretty low.
I’m 58. MY heroes were the guys like my old man and uncles, Airborne and Marines, who saved a world from national socialists and imperial Japanese lunatics.
But, yeah... Kurt Cobain... a “hero”, uh huh.... an idiot Grunger who erased his face with a shotgun because he was too cowardly to face life. No sympathy at all from me.
We’re Baby Boomers. Generation born between 1946 and 1964.
You’re exponentially higher on the hero scale than any of those nitwits in this article.
I can’t believe people look up to these guys.
“Kurt Cobain?? Hero??? River Phoenix?? Hero?? Chris Cornell?? Hero??”
I agree with your sentiments. I believe, too often, in this day and age, words like talent and hero get confused. There are plenty of people who have great talents but certainly don’t merit being idolized.
The false “hero” status we put on celebrities also encourages them to believe we care what they think.
I've heard of two of the three. The biggest accomplishment of each of them was suicide. Who's the third dude, and did he off himself?