Maybe it would be good to distinguish between “heroism within a generally functional pattern which happened to have an exception” and a “pattern-changing heroism”.
That’s a good distinction and I would also throw in the third kind—“heroism within a generally disfunctional pattern which continues to exist because regular heroics keep it afloat”. This is related to the well-known management concept of the “firefighting mode”.
That’s a good distinction and I would also throw in the third kind—“heroism within a generally disfunctional pattern which continues to exist because regular heroics keep it afloat”. This is related to the well-known management concept of the “firefighting mode”.