A Thought Expermient about Superwomen

In several of the earliest versions of Superman’s origin, his mother Lara is offered the chance to go to Earth with her baby, but chooses to die with her with her husband on Krypton instead.

But what if Jor-el had insisted that she go? She would have ended up on Earth with her Superbaby, perhaps around the time women got the vote.

And unlike the infant, she would have been fully aware that she’d lost her people and planet, not to mention the love of her life. 

That could make quite a mini-series, a kind of ElseKryptons story.

How Amorality Is Advertised

Let's get a wider view and watch how amorality is sold to our society. 

Once we regarded “Lord of the Flies” as a horror story. Now we treat it as comedy on “Survivor.” 

And children raised on nothing but Hollywood's product could be forgiven if they thought the two most popular professions in America were “assassin” and “prostitute.”

Horror of the Fog Queens

Christopher Isherwood recalled a London cab ride with Bill Caskey and Tennessee Williams in 1948. 

“It is foggy, and Tennessee exclaims, ‘We are the dreaded fog queens!’ and utters his screaming laugh,” Isherwood wrote in his Lost Years memoir. 

“Whereupon all three of them begin to elaborate on the fantasy — how the respectable citizens shudder and slam their shutters and cross themselves as the dreaded fog queens ride by, and how one darling little boy disregards their warnings and looks out of the window and sees the fog queens and they are absolutely beautiful, so he shouts to them and begs them to take him with them, and they do, and he is never heard from again.”

News Flash! He's Not Coming

Sad that these theists continue to wait anxiously for someone who has never and will never arrive, making up little lies about why he’s so very late and how much he loves them, like desperate wallflowers at life’s pageant. For century after century they’ve sat there, erupting occasionally in spasms of bloody madness, then slouching back to wait in the corner, muttering to themselves.

Perception and Inner Balance

happiness is not:

perfection, control or determined

by external events and people.

happiness is:

a product of your perception and

inner balance. When you define your

own energy, you bring your harmony

with you wherever you go.

 — yung pueblo

Inside the Digital Skinner Box

The hunger for constant, instant digital stimulation has made Skinner Box pigeons of the lot of us. The need for the digital fix turns out to be as compulsive as yanking the levers on a slot machine, training the human attention span to be reduced to that of a gnat.

The Eternal Sincerity of the Talk Show

 

“I suffered in silence,” confessed the blonde, flashing her practiced smile on the Today Show.