04-12-2015, 11:10 AM
A dream I had:
There was a group of super heroes that could pass their powers onto others by sharing their DNA with them. One older super hero had given powers to a young man and was training him, but the young man consistently used his powers only for selfish, petty reasons, causing greater and greater problems for the organization as a whole. The older man scolded him but didn't really do anything to rein him in.
Eventually the young man's friends got jealous of his powers, so he shared his DNA with all of them. They then thought it would be a good idea to share the power with all of the people in the city they found deserving, and they soon had something akin to an army. While powers would generally manifest uniquely in each person, all the people this man had gifted his powers to seemed to be linked to his own mind. They acted as a hive mind, moving in perfect coordination, and the young man thought about how, now that he was at the center of all this power, why not just take over everything and rule the world how he thought it should be ruled? Why did he even need the other heroes anymore?
So the group of super-powered children made a great display before the older super heroes, trying to assert their dominance. The older heroes watched, unimpressed, and one woman among them said casually, with no remorse, that they would all have to be killed. With those sorts of numbers the young man would simply cause them too many problems. Another man told her to spare three or four of the children he had other plans for, but she was free to kill the other hundreds.
The younger people, oblivious to all of this, were arrogantly talking about how they were in charge now, then their views were all drawn to the horizon, where presumably their executioner awaited, and fear showed in all of their eyes. In the end, their power was nothing.
The moral of the story: Don't give power to those who lack the wisdom to use it.
There was a group of super heroes that could pass their powers onto others by sharing their DNA with them. One older super hero had given powers to a young man and was training him, but the young man consistently used his powers only for selfish, petty reasons, causing greater and greater problems for the organization as a whole. The older man scolded him but didn't really do anything to rein him in.
Eventually the young man's friends got jealous of his powers, so he shared his DNA with all of them. They then thought it would be a good idea to share the power with all of the people in the city they found deserving, and they soon had something akin to an army. While powers would generally manifest uniquely in each person, all the people this man had gifted his powers to seemed to be linked to his own mind. They acted as a hive mind, moving in perfect coordination, and the young man thought about how, now that he was at the center of all this power, why not just take over everything and rule the world how he thought it should be ruled? Why did he even need the other heroes anymore?
So the group of super-powered children made a great display before the older super heroes, trying to assert their dominance. The older heroes watched, unimpressed, and one woman among them said casually, with no remorse, that they would all have to be killed. With those sorts of numbers the young man would simply cause them too many problems. Another man told her to spare three or four of the children he had other plans for, but she was free to kill the other hundreds.
The younger people, oblivious to all of this, were arrogantly talking about how they were in charge now, then their views were all drawn to the horizon, where presumably their executioner awaited, and fear showed in all of their eyes. In the end, their power was nothing.
The moral of the story: Don't give power to those who lack the wisdom to use it.
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