Food for Thought

Call me a sucker for pop culture, but I'm officially hooked on Heroes. Anybody who hasn't caught an episode really should do so. I mean, millions of US viewers can't be wrong, can they? Oh perhaps, when it comes to Jackass 2, you could say they could be wrong once in a while. But trust me, Heroes is one of the newest television series worth watching. It makes you question human capabilities and whether or not science, supernatural instincts, or whatever you want to call it, can affect your personal life.

Imagine this, you're able to bend space and time and you can teleport yourself to another country. Or you're able to predict the future through your art. Or better still, you're invincible! Wouldn't the world be a better place if these people with these capabilities are able to put their superhuman abilities to good use? I mean, if you're invincible, you're able to save people caught in a fire, for example (as a character has done in one of the episodes). Or if you're able to predict the future through your art, you can alert the authorities to stop the catastrophe from happening.

Only one problem though. Even if you're able to do these things, are they going to believe you? I mean, we humans are suspicious creatures. We tend not to believe things that are out of the ordinary. The few who do are labelled as weirdos, or nutcases. So, what do we do to avoid these labels? We choose not to believe.

So I'm stuck now. I must admit that I'm one of those who fears such labels imposed on me. So I guess I'm a hypocrite for saying these things. But it's food for thought, isn't it? Just imagine the millions of lives that could be saved if, say, someone predicted that the tsunami was going to hit the Indian Ocean in 2004.

Like I said, it's worth thinking about.