2013.03.17 First tangent - Part 1

Ok, this will be the book project, and the titles are going to be different, and I'll play with it to find something that works well, same goes for the body of the blog posts. :)

Before I dive into the specific book, I feel that today's post topic is the first but necessary detour on this journey of understanding.

Chances are, part of anyone's childhood included various superheroes, with various super powers, dreams and wishes to have these powers, and further day dreams about what you would do if you had them. Something very pervasive in our society today is that in order to achieve great things, you must also be special, super human, a god among men if you will. In any modern story, movies included, the hero always has a special origin story, of how this hero came to be superhuman in one way or another, but it comes with some weakness.

This is not fiction, I believe this is real, just not in the direct way that one might think. Suspend disbelief, and consider for a moment what a super power usually entails:

1) A feature, skill, ability, or strength, the hero possesses and relies upon to achieve the desired outcome, or another advantage that was thrust upon our hero at some point.
2) Some event that causes serious psychological damage, resulting in either and overwhelming drive to change society as they know it.
3) Their increased ability also comes with an inherent weakness that is occasionally taken advantage of by their opponents, and the hero always wins by using another strength to make up for their weakness.

Now if we keep these base parameters of super powers, and we ignore things like flying and shooting lasers out of our eyes, and other fantastic things, it should also be realised that it rarity is not a requirement to a super power. One such example would be telepathy. But what if we all had a power such as telepathy? What would you do differently if you had a superpower that was even more powerful than telepathy? Even Professor X could only use his ability within that time. Spock can only share his mind with someone who is next to him. What if you could do all that but go beyond time and space?

Because we can. Language allows us to communicate ideas with each other. Books allow us to hear what people hundreds of years ago had to say, how they think.

To be continued....

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