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Heroes, Potential, and Limits
Dec. 1st, 2006 02:02 amMy friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
siderea wrote a powerful piece in reflection from the current episode of Heroes (tonight at 7, eastern US time, on SciFi).
http://siderea.livejournal.com/423384.html
She discussed the ways in which it deals with key issues. For me, had she only written the following, it would have been almost as powerful and maybe moreso:
I noted there and note here that I think it is also about limits and how one deals with them.
We each have powers. Some of us have powers that others describe with awe, if not quite as far from the human normal range as those in the show. Pride, to me, should not arise from the having of powers, but in the application of those powers.
I have a hard time, now and then, convincing people of this: If it did not require you to do anything, being proud of an academic achievement makes no sense. I think it leads down paths that are dark.
Find your powers and nurture them. Then apply them. And have fun.
siderea wrote a powerful piece in reflection from the current episode of Heroes (tonight at 7, eastern US time, on SciFi).http://siderea.livejournal.com/423384.html
She discussed the ways in which it deals with key issues. For me, had she only written the following, it would have been almost as powerful and maybe moreso:
the narrative purpose of the superpowers is to illuminate something about the human condition, about how humans cope with their potentials -- the potential for greatness, the potential to do good, the potential to do evil, the potential to be hurt, the potential to fail your potential.
I noted there and note here that I think it is also about limits and how one deals with them.
We each have powers. Some of us have powers that others describe with awe, if not quite as far from the human normal range as those in the show. Pride, to me, should not arise from the having of powers, but in the application of those powers.
I have a hard time, now and then, convincing people of this: If it did not require you to do anything, being proud of an academic achievement makes no sense. I think it leads down paths that are dark.
Find your powers and nurture them. Then apply them. And have fun.
