Full Video: Why do superhero movies work? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)
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00:00Why do people fantasize about superheroes so much?
00:02The superhero is not really merely a fantasy.
00:06In some sense, the Superman within us is more real than anything else we know of.
00:12Because it is the Superman we all live for.
00:15So what can be more real than that?
00:18Who wants to live a mediocre life of suffering?
00:21So it is not a privilege, not just a fantastic ambition to be a Superman.
00:26It is your fundamental obligation towards your own life.
00:30You will have to be a Superman if you do not want to die suffering.
00:33It's not the outsiders that you need to fight.
00:36It is not the alien invaders that you need to fight.
00:39The real Superman fights the evil within.
00:43The evil within.
00:45And that's why I said the Superman really is the highest potentiality resting within each of us.