What do we expect while living in the world of "super"- things?
Ans: The writer points out satirically that “while living in a world of super things, we might expect them to be made by a race of supermen." But the facts are otherwise. A tailor, in a fit of excitement, may advertise his goods as “super trousers made by a super tailor” but' he never ventures to call himself a superman. The same is the case with other people and things made or achieved by them. They call their things super; they call their skill or achievements super, but they never claim that they themselves are supermen.
During the Middle Ages, tides were given to people, but now they are conferred upon man-made things. We feel less proud of ourselves and more of the things made by us. We do not say that such and such a poet is “Super-Shakespeare”, we only say that if Shakespeare or Leonardo da Vinci could see our aeroplanes how astonished they would be.
In the past, the people were proud of themselves. Had a prince of those days heard the word “super" he would certainly have got himself sculptured as a superman. Caesre Borgia tried to be one, though he had never heard the word. In our times, even the most powerful or the richest cannot call themselves supermen. Rockfeller was a super billionaire, but otherwise there was no difference between him and other well-dressed persons of his country.
We use the word “super" with things only to inflate our ego or deceive others, otherwise there is hardly any difference of quality in a thing called “super” and an ordinary thing. How can the things be super things, when there are no supermen to produce them?
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