That was one of the things that got me on to that topic, but it came after reading another article (which I can't seem to find again :P ) about Django Unchained, and how it reduced and simplified the complex saga of emancipation, with literally millions of people doing their part, into a tale of a single Hero. Now, it was obviously supposed to be a microcosm, but the article went into a bunch of other stuff and did a great job of showing how thoroughly the concept of the One True Hero for any given situation has permeated all of our narratives, both fictional and "historical" (e.g. reducing the Civil War to Lincoln, or the Civil Rights Movement to King).

(I need to find a better icon for this. Maybe something from that one Buffy episode where they all combined their energies to take down the Big Bad. This one's the best I can do right now, because it's at least got the communist symbolism in there.)