The term "heroic societies" was first coined by Munro Chadwick about a century ago, which briefly fell into disfavor until archaeological discoveries began to support it. There is a short checklist of heroic notions in Part I of https://davidgraeber.org/papers/culture-as-creative-refusal/ along with a theory of how they have come to inform our politics, and, as I interpret it, caused the waste of tens or hundreds of billions of years of labor power on useless dramas and trifles.
The term "heroic societies" was first coined by Munro Chadwick about a century ago, which briefly fell into disfavor until archaeological discoveries began to support it. There is a short checklist of heroic notions in Part I of https://davidgraeber.org/papers/culture-as-creative-refusal/ along with a theory of how they have come to inform our politics, and, as I interpret it, caused the waste of tens or hundreds of billions of years of labor power on useless dramas and trifles.