Even with a plan in place, there will be times when you are down. The plan may not be going fast enough, you may have to change more than you thought, fear may be holding you back, or the criticism of anti-heroes are getting to you. At these times you will be glad you associate with a community of other like-minded heroes. Many people do not understand that in a free enterprise system, truth and error battle it out on the market. If you are going to be an entrepreneur, you must realize that criticism is part of the profession. A hero does not fear the free transmission of ideas, because he believes in his cause and he will prove the truthfulness of his cause by his or her results. Let me quote from Ed Opitz:

“A society should have freedom of worship, press, and the academy, so that truth and error might slug it out in the forum; truth needs no authority other than itself, and error should have none…Truth needs champions willing to go to the mat for it, willing to expose entrenched error in full and free discussion, willing to expound truth attractively, until the old falsehoods finally slink away. The fact that certain ideas have, at a given time, gained ‘majority acceptance’ is only another way of saying that ‘the masses have an ideology.’ This fact tells us nothing as to the merits of the ideology the masses have accepted, by comparison with those they have rejected. Widespread public acceptance of an idea is no valid test of the idea. A philosophical judgment is not passed merely by a show of hands, pro and con. Nor is man’s intellectual stature measured by the results of a popularity poll.”

Though different books and different authors, the same point is made. If you are going to have above average results then you must do above average things. A heroic life is formed by doing heroic deeds on a consistent basis. A community of like-minded people is extremely important to the hero since the majority of people he meets have passively accepted the anti-heroic doctrine pumped into them by our socialistic educational system. He needs, for example, his local church; a community of like-minded believers who do not rely on public opinion polls to determine what they believe. The hero understands that the truth will never be disproved by error. And he understands that the reason he sees so much name-calling and slanderous attacks from anti-heroes is because their doctrine simply cannot stand on its own merit. They must make noise to distract the masses from that fact.