Smallville Season 4: Expanding Your World View (early access)

The moral case for expanding your view of the world

There's only so much that you can actually know.

No matter how much you have or experiences you're capable of, you're fundamentally limited in what you can do. In part because of all the limitations placed upon you. When you're born, you can't really do much of anything beyond cry when you're hungry or tired or in some kind of pain. Those are the only things you can actually feel at these times. At least as far as people can understand themselves. It's hard to get any kind of reasonable understanding of what you can know. Which is itself a kind of limitation of people. You can't really know the most important things about the earliest days of your own development. The limitations hardly end there. With every year that passes you learn more but you also understand that there are things you can't do. Places you can't go and powers you don't have, like the ability to fly or run at super sonic speeds. You learn that you're vulnerable to things, like sharp objects and fire and cold. Knowing these limitations about yourself can be crazy making, but it can also make you want to test your limits.

Previously in this space, we've explored the problem with trying to fit in with people around you, as well as what happens when you try to stand out. We've looked at how this can make you feel insane because some people can't do either. But the story doesn't necessarily end there. Going crazy can give you a reason to see the world differently. That there are ideas and concepts beyond your own understanding of the world, and that you can become more than what you are through this process. Consider new opportunities for growth, not limit yourself to the every day and the ordinary most people go through. But what happens to you when you do? Is it all good or all bad? Maybe somewhere in between?

“Clark, your mother tells me that... you can fly?”

“Kal-El can fly, Clark Kent is still earth bound.”

“How did that feel?”

“Amazing... and scary, because if I can do that maybe I'm capable of anything.”