What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Read in light of Baudrillard’s recurring concerns—simulation, the loss of symbolic exchange, and the flattening of experience into media-managed “events”—the question suggests that a society needs some register of risk, sacrifice, and exemplary action to orient collective meaning. A “heroic dimension” is less about celebrating individual great men than about preserving a space where actions can exceed calculation and spectacle, where something genuinely stakes itself. Without that dimension, social life risks becoming purely managerial and consumable: politics as image, morality as branding, and history as endlessly replayed representation. The quote functions as a provocation: if heroism disappears, what replaces the capacity for shared significance?