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Hero's can also just be the prontagonists in a story. Part of gaining experience in the real world is learning that aspects of certain stories are not real and that the hero's may be all too much so. On the flip side villains are oft times fabricated as well. This is all to be expected.

"There are real people whose feelings were really hurt by A!"

So What? He hurt my feelings a few times but I still loved him and the LBC crew for what they did for the milieu. It reminds me of how the protestant side of my family rejected my father as a papist (because he was Italian), even though he renounced the Catholic church. They were so hell-bent on promoting their own brand of puritanical bullshit that they couldn't even tolerate his mildly bad behavior. Sound familiar? Had my estranged family members chosen to stay the course they may have discovered that those whom challenge you can also help make you stronger.

"Do they need their own forum to mourn the passing of an enemy?"

Apparently not! Those forced to the margins of, or forsaken by, the whole crimethink-IGD-subMedia triarchy may feel grief and anger for having been cancelled out of @ cultural events at the expense of everyday anarchists (whom may also be experiencing grief and anger) and the anarcho-curious (to the extent that the latter exists anymore). Also it certainly is quite remarkable that no specifics of Aragorn!s behavior have been mentioned that were alleged to have been so real, so hurtful, for so many (who? what? how?) and seem to some how justify this carving up, indeed this butchering, of a dwindling milieu!

"What are good ways to remember and acknowledge that complicated people have been important to us, to remember that how we mourn can be a direction we want to go in"

So going deeper into nostalgia is a direction to go? Aragorn often said at various times and in various ways (to people not unlike myself) that the internet was never going to give you what you want out of social relations and that people should move on. Thus punching his memory and sanctimoniously ripping up LBC books are the wrong directions. Instead, perhaps shifting more towards physicals space, and away from cyberspace, beyond the manipulative reach of all these sectarian cliques, are probably better ways of not only remembering, acknowledging, and morning, but also learning via direct experience with those we may otherwise have only mild disagreements with.