Usurper

What is wrong with being god? It is an interesting occupation is it not, to control everything and to meddle in the lives of every living thing, perhaps even in the entire workings of the universe. What is wrong with having such power, nothing at all it seems? Every one of us plays god sometimes or the other. We dictate terms to others and sometimes carry it off.

Well, the wrong is not in the wish, it is in the assumption that we could be so, for nothing is certain in the universe, time space, everything that exist function in ways that are unknown to us. That would not be known to us even if we try. This is a scientific fact. We can not exceed the limits imposed on us by nature. The subject has been discussed thread bare and we would not engage ourselves with it. Even in the back ground of self evident facts we still crave for superiority. We want to rule, we want to teach others how to live. Quite a sorry state of affairs is it not.

Perhaps none can be blamed for this. Every one needs order in the midst of chaos, what we see around ourselves in the universe is something beyond our comprehension. The more we think about it the more confused we become. We want to see some sort of order in it to be comfortable. This order can only be inserted from within ourselves. We need to fabricate an environment where this is possible. This is what we did by taming nature in the first place and building civilizations. Now we want to take it further – to the state where man can effectively control all aspects of his environment.

For this we need superman. The superman would be blissfully liberated from the troubles of the ordinary mortal. He would have a lengthier existence and healthier moral code!

Well, we may not think much of his morals, for we are weak, we do not see the giant picture, we are still enmeshed in the sloppy and slushy sentimentalism. We believe in freedom for example, what in the hell is that. Only the superman is free, he is free from desires, lusts, cravings and several other things besides regarding the lesser mortals of course, his genus would be well looked after! He is like your Budha, completely above everything that we value, but with an important difference- this Budha would never preach quitting everything to find peace, this Budha would preach quitting most of the things others need to gain absolute control. He would quit the very things that make us human.

He would replace the very substance of humanity with a type of ruthless passion to be on top, to be the lord.

This superman may lack the finesse of the idea of superman in vogue, but I believe that this is the guy who is bound to take over from us in the future if things go in the present way.

It is our duty to prevent this from happening.