Why the World Needs More Than One Superman

Having read the latest world news from different sources, my poignant mind were challenged to conclude a thought linking to an idea of a movie about a superhero. A seemingly imaginative idea that the world needs more than one superman. Why?

You probably live in a secluded different world if you don’t know Superman. Regarded as the most famous fictional character, Superman is the first comic book superhero. Superman is portrayed as a powerful human from another planet. Typically, as a superhero, he uses whatever power he possesses to help others and to fight against cruelties, mostly caused by his enemies. His most malicious enemy is Lex Luthor.From comic to radio serials, from television programs to films, the Superhero appears everywhere. The latest one is the ‘Superman Returns’ that was just released this summer.

Yet, Superman is not real. He doesn’t live in our world. But you know what? Having a Superman would probably be a bit helpful for the world. However, I won’t discuss much further about the superhero himself as I’m not really that knowledgeable about Superman. Yet, inspired by the last movie, I would like to examine about what happens in our world today by comparing it with the story of Superman. The world where we're living in have been undergoing too many cruelties and problems, regardless many existing great things that seems too few compared the bad ones. And, although being different with the ones in the Superman stories, I reckon that we need a kind of superman to deal with problems in the world.

Why is it? Perhaps, a review of the current world affairs is significant to show what's been going on. Hence we can see the link between the story of Superman and our world.

- "Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicholas Maduro said on Thursday the United States distinguished between "good" and "bad" terrorists, depending on their political leanings. "(Reuters AlertNet, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N28310204.htm)

- "The Bush administration is concealing the level of violence against U.S. troops in Iraq and the situation there is growing worse despite White House and Pentagon claims of progress, journalist Bob Woodward said in advance of a new book." (Reuters AlertNet, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N28210876.htm).

- "Taliban attacks along Afghanistan's southeastern border have more than doubled in the three weeks since a controversial deal between Pakistan and pro-Taliban militants..." (Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,1883738,00.html).

- "Pakistan rapped over detentions: Pakistan is accused of detaining hundreds of alleged terror suspects without legal process by human rights organisation Amnesty International..." (BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5390824.stm).

- surrounding the recent terrorism threat to UK: "A major shake-up in the security services and the police was signalled yesterday as John Reid announced a fundamental review of Britain's capacity to tackle the terrorist threat." (Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1883765,00.html); "The victims of the July bombings in London last year were let down by the authorities, with many left feeling forgotten or unimportant on the day and in the weeks that followed the attacks..." (Guardian, http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1879316,00.html); "The home secretary clashed with two Islamist radicals when he met the east London Muslim community to urge it to tackle extremism. (Guardian,http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1877308,00.html).

- "Two teenagers have been shot in front of families with young children in a McDonald's restaurant...the incident which happened in Brixton, south London." (BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5390652.stm).

- "Military coups, like wars, are easy to start but hard to end. They mostly begin rather as Thailand's did this week: at night, with tanks on the streets of the capital, television stations surrounded, programming suddenly replaced with martial music and, in the light of morning, a promise from a grim-faced general that power has been seized only temporarily and that democracy will soon be restored, once the constitution has been suitably adjusted. " (The Economist, http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7942244). A stormy start for Thailand following the recent circumstances within the country: "The storms that lashed Thailand this week were a fitting Shakespearean metaphor for the kingdom's troubles. A week after a coup by six top military men overthrew the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, the streets remained calm." (The economist, http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7971085).

- Abouth the Bird flu in Indonesia: "A 21-year-old Indonesian woman, the sister of a boy who died of bird flu earlier this month, is suffering from the same disease, the health ministry said on Friday." (Reuters AlertNet, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK21450.htm).

I need not to mention every news. Those above are adequate for us to perceiving the look of our world today. It should beckon us, at least, to think on these things. An individual is incapable of solving the heart-rending problems. But i reckon, every attempt would be appreciated as a Superman deed. Thus, at this point, what we need is not a Superman, but more than one of him. So, why we need more than one Superman? Bear in mind that, in the story of Superman, the superhero wasn't capable to cope more than one frictions that happens at the same time although he only had to face one Lex Luthor. But in our world? We've got too many Lex Luthors. Too many devilish characters of Lex Luthor, they are. That's why, the more "Supermen" we've got the better it is.