My Writing Sample for Issue

[Bellwether]

I am trying to improve my timed writing. This I wrote in 35 minutes to the following prompt. Please tell where I can improve. 

QUESTION: In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero. 
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position. 

MY ANSWER: Humans are no more complex and flawed than they were before intensive media coverage. However, the heroes of old juxtaposed to the heroes of contemporary media-entrenched times seem to be on the verge of ascension to otherworldly levels of consciousness while our teenage girls worship the twerks of Miley Cyrus. Most people can be spectators in the lives of their famed heroes. Anyone can intrude on parts of celebrity’s lives that were once respected to be clandestine. Now, we have heroes more human than ever. Yet, can they be regarded even more highly because of their humanity? The evidence of their humanity is sold to the general public on the racks of magazines while they check out their groceries, and the consumers dare fault their heroes after delighting in their folly? 
First, what is a hero? Is it someone infallible? If the definition rests on heroes to be without blemish on their reputation, then the media coverage will certainly destroy all fictions of a hero because no one is interred without transgressions on their conscience. On the other hand, if our heroes ceased to be the standard of near perfection in lieu of celebrating their positive attributes in spite of their infractions, we could continue to have heroes; this time, not in our perception aided by imagination but in the bona fide flesh. One may argue that the worst encroachment on human rights’ that can happen to an individual is to take their fundamental propensity for individual action and thought and project one’s own versions of the individual that one prefers instead of respecting an individual’s personhood. It can be almost aligned with the act of rape; to object a person to be the means to our own pleasure and self-satisfaction, and for that person to serve our constructed reality instead of recognizing our reality by be infiltrated by inaccurate (and often uncomfortably untrue) perceptions. 
Therefore, to be a hero or heroine could be to be exceptional in an area of attributes and still relatable and humble; more or less, to be human. There still exists remarkable individuals, such as Warren Buffet, that take care to avoid the limelight. Although Buffet is one of the wealthiest men in the world, he lives simply in the same house he was raised in by his middle-means parents. He is widely respected for his simplicity, but also accosted in some circles to be as pretentious as unpretentious others choose to regard him. Additionally, even with his avoidant behavior of the limelight, Buffet’s grandchild appeared in a documentary to speak about personal, mostly financial matters of the family. The vehement reaction of Buffet to disown his grandchild was shocking, and repulsive to many people. Even so, he is only a human, and this brutal depiction of humanity only angers other people because we see our faults when we look in the mirror, so we look to others to obstruct our own reflection. 
In this sense, the intensive media coverage often brings out the most vile and thus most interesting news to the forefront. To the detriment of our high opinions of our heroes, it sells well. If the individual were to follow the innocuous and yet disturbing news of their favorite role model, then one may be mislead and forced to accept the projection of their hero that the media now creates for profit. Heroes in the flesh are susceptible to all the misgivings and misfortunes of the human experience. Thus, if we consume the media’s outputs, we are choosing to accept the objectification of our heroes. Before the intrusion of the media, we still objectified our heroes but it was the pedestal the heroes were placed on top of when they were as fallible as any of their admirers. 
Heroism is more than perfection. It is more than our tragic Greek heroes that the Western world has revered for so many centuries, a basis for our own conception of heroes. In a paradigm shift of humanity, one must accept the reality of their heroes in exchange for the fiction one projects on their hero. Likewise, the projection fabricated by the media must be tempered with the same logic: heroes are human, and their humanity is what makes them worth revering. 

Critiques, please!