heroes among us

Intriguing show.  I'm not a rabid TV watcher, so I hadn't seen any of the first season.

The story's up my alley.  It has an X-men sort of thing going on.  Normal people discover they have unusual powers...

I think the appeal of the show goes back to Dr. Campbell's diagnosis: we crave myth.

There are spiritual stories playing out in the lives we lead, but in this post-structuralist world, we've lost our scrying mirrors, our crystal balls, our painted caves that remind us all of it is amazing and none of it is new.

We dance to the music of the spheres and the universe dances with us.  All that is dances in close, hot body tango with all that isn't.  Life is one expansive, explosive, exhilirating firework show of moments after moments.  Ironically we have to be present and get perspective to catch the full beauty of it all.

It's how the Creative Force of the universe can be at once intimately personal and vastly unknowable.

Heroes is compelling because having powers doesn't exempt the characters from the human condition.  Their abilities can screw things up as potentently as righting unjust wrongs.

As a kid, I always fantasized having super powers would give me some sort of control over life to guarantee that it would work out to my advantage.  Those fantasies haven't altogether gone away...ahem.

Anyway, good show.  Fun evening.  Tasty ice cream.  Not bad for a Monday night.

Passion, beauty, and love, folks--24 hours at a time...