EXCERPTS FROM 'SUPER PSYCHE: THE INNER WORKINGS OF A SUPER HERO MIND' by
Dr. David Morris PhD
. . . A sense of responsibility is placed upon a super being. Those with functioning consciences tend to become crime fighters. It is because of a Messianic Complex, when a person in a position of power uses his power for absolute good and wants to save the world, which this occurs. When super powered beings develop this complex they cease to be crime fighters and become Super Heroes.
. . . "With great power comes great responsibility," as Stan Lee put it. As the world has learned, for the most part, super powers tend to bring out either the good or the bad in people.
. . . Of this Aristotle had four conclusions: "The first is that in this life there are three things most to be shunned, viciousness (to which is opposed virtue), incontinence (to which is opposed continence), and bestial savagery (to which is opposed virtue's heroic and divine excellence). The second that that these two things, namely savagery and that lofty virtue of mind which renders men divine, rarely occur among mortals. But some men are conspicuously barbaric . . . . The third that virtue belongs neither to God nor to a beast, since in God there is no passion and nothing accidental, and morals and the virtues do not accrue to beasts. The forth is that in the following precepts he shall only strive to seek for and hunt out probability. By heroic and divine virtue (the opposites of bestiality), the Philosopher means that rare and admirable excellence most employed in the bridling of pleasure and concupiscence."
. . . I am certain that super powers are the secret to becoming either the Divine or the Beast. Normal man is not capable of either extreme on his own . . . Trauma seems to be the trigger. Some kind of traumatic experience with a super powered being usually triggers the decision to be either beastly or divine. A person with super powers that survives a disaster will more than likely develop the Messianic Complex, and want to "save the world."
. . . A sense of responsibility is placed upon a super being. Those with functioning consciences tend to become crime fighters. It is because of a Messianic Complex, when a person in a position of power uses his power for absolute good and wants to save the world, which this occurs. When super powered beings develop this complex they cease to be crime fighters and become Super Heroes.
. . . "With great power comes great responsibility," as Stan Lee put it. As the world has learned, for the most part, super powers tend to bring out either the good or the bad in people.
. . . Of this Aristotle had four conclusions: "The first is that in this life there are three things most to be shunned, viciousness (to which is opposed virtue), incontinence (to which is opposed continence), and bestial savagery (to which is opposed virtue's heroic and divine excellence). The second that that these two things, namely savagery and that lofty virtue of mind which renders men divine, rarely occur among mortals. But some men are conspicuously barbaric . . . . The third that virtue belongs neither to God nor to a beast, since in God there is no passion and nothing accidental, and morals and the virtues do not accrue to beasts. The forth is that in the following precepts he shall only strive to seek for and hunt out probability. By heroic and divine virtue (the opposites of bestiality), the Philosopher means that rare and admirable excellence most employed in the bridling of pleasure and concupiscence."
. . . I am certain that super powers are the secret to becoming either the Divine or the Beast. Normal man is not capable of either extreme on his own . . . Trauma seems to be the trigger. Some kind of traumatic experience with a super powered being usually triggers the decision to be either beastly or divine. A person with super powers that survives a disaster will more than likely develop the Messianic Complex, and want to "save the world."