Galaxy Saga
Galaxy Saga
The Effects Of Human Flaws On Power
It has been said that giving a superhero the flaws of an ordinary person could only lead into inevitable disaster. The concept stems from the old adage “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” as superheroes tend to be in positions of great power. Arguably, any protagonist that exhibits human flaws is going to find himself subject to great scrutiny. People will always see him as being someone who must never exhibit weaknesses and flaws. Flaws and traits like social anxiety, status anxiety, mental health disorders, and psychosis can all have immense impact on a hero’s actions, which in turn can affect countless others. The “flawed” hero, while an interesting avenue to take in the realm of fiction, can also become a walking disaster, with the level of damage only varying on how badly things go.
Frodo Baggins, from Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” saga, can be taken as an interesting case of both status anxiety and performance anxiety. Presented with an all-powerful, all-corrupting object of pure evil, Frodo is made to embark on a journey to destroy the said object. It is made clear in several passages that Frodo does not want the ring and the inevitable burden of having to carry it and disposing of it. His status anxiety plays out in the subtle hints that he is willing to pass the burden on to just about anyone, if only it would let him get back to his normal “status” in his home.
However, he also exhibits mild hints of performance anxiety in that he is unwilling to undergo the long and dangerous journey to be rid of the ring in the first place. Even if he felt inadequate for the task, he slowly came to realize that pawning the ring off to someone else is merely going to delay the inevitable. However, in the end, he comes to realize that the “One Ring” is a burden he has to bear, and faces up to the task. He is corrupted near the climax by the promise of power, but by that point, he has finally accepted his fate.
Another instance of a combination of problems similar to Frodo’s comes in the form of Paul “Muad’dib” Atreides, from Frank Herbert’s “Dune” saga. Atreides, like Baggins, has the deadly cocktail of status anxiety and performance anxiety. However, unlike the aforementioned literary character, Paul’s actions could have had more long-lasting effects for all of humanity. Paul, gifted with the ability to see the future and thus enable plans to ensure his visions occur, foresees what he claims is “The Golden Path” of humanity. However, he also sees that while his vision assures the continued survival of humanity, it also means that he would have to sacrifice his humanity to achieve it.
His performance anxiety comes into play when he realizes that he does not want to make the sacrifices necessary to ensure that his vision becomes reality, as he is too attached to his humanity to abandon it. However, his position as ruler of a galaxy-spanning empire places pressure on him to rule. His unwillingness to let go of his position echoes of status anxiety, as he feels that he must remain Emperor. Yet, by remaining Emperor, he effectively is playing right into the hands of his fear of losing his humanity. In the end, however, he find a way out of his own conundrum by distorting the very faith that made him Emperor in the first place.
However, both Frodo Baggins and Paul Atreides were permanently scarred by their actions. Frodo’s emotional healing never really purged the trauma he experienced during his time with the “One Ring.” In the end, the stress and anxiety of the journey forced him to leave his home and his friends forever, as he felt he could no longer be part of “their” world. In the case of Paul Atreides, years of twisting and warping his own image such that he made himself a “god” had taken their toll on his mental health and how he viewed himself. He had become a hypocrite by enslaving the people he claimed he wanted to free, using religion rather than force to subdue them. His opportunity to make up for his mistakes and have some semblance of emotional healing came when everyone thought him to be dead. Changing from Emperor to a blind wanderer, he then began working on repairing the damage he had wrought by attempting to dismantle the religion he himself crafted.
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Sunspots Are dark matter?
It seems that the sun is trying to fight back the dark matter. Here is a series of proportions heroic, and the sun against the dark matter! See Goliahs Bohemoths and fighting the eternal battle for supremacy! Why are we so conscious of this battle of the millennium? All other galaxies to see this wrestling match! At least we will have in the front row! In addition, hopefully are not going in the asteroid belt in short term. Does anyone know if I headed toward the asteroid belt? Also, do you think the sun and the planets are opposing elements that keep neg / positive charge so that the planets are not in the sun by the principles of magnetic attraction (which should have happened years ago). And the darkness issue that is heavier than the matter is the soup making space and keeps us afloat in the universe? Otherwise, whether a fall) in the sun or b) have no a logical pattern of movement or position in the galaxy, ie we would like Nubulas.
A sunspot is a region in the Sun's surface (photosphere) characterized by colder than its environment and the intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection, forming areas of low surface temperature. Although overwhelmingly bright, at temperatures of about 4000-4500 K, the contrast material that surrounds some 5700 K leaves them clearly visible as dark spots. If they were isolated from the surrounding photosphere would be brighter than an arc. Since 2006, we are near a minimum (expected in 2007) in the cycle sunspots [1]. Similar phenomenon observed in other stars than the Sun is called starspots. In astrophysics, dark matter refers to matter that does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation (like light, X rays, etc.) to be detected directly, but whose presence is inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter. Among the observed phenomena consistent with the existence of dark matter are the rotational speeds of galaxies and orbital velocities of galaxies in clusters, gravitational lensing of background objects by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet Cluster, and the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Dark matter also plays a central role in structure formation and Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and has measurable effects on the anisotropy of the cosmic background microwave. All these lines of evidence suggest that galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the universe as a whole contains far more matter than is directly observable, indicating that the rest is dark. The composition of dark matter is unknown, but may include new elementary particles such as WIMPs and axions, neutrinos ordinary and heavy, the stars and planets collectively called dwarf males, and non-luminous gas clouds. Current evidence favors models in which the primary component of matter Dark is the new elementary particles, collectively called dark matter nonbaryonic. The dark matter component is more massive than the very "visible" component the universe. [1] At present, the density of ordinary baryons and radiation in the universe is estimated to be equivalent to about one hydrogen atom per cubic meter space. Only about 4% of the total energy density in the universe (as inferred from gravitational effects) can be seen directly. About 22% thought which is composed of dark matter. The remaining 74% is considered that consists of dark energy, an even stranger component, distributed diffusely in space. [2] Some difficult to detect baryonic matter (see the baryonic dark matter) makes a contribution to dark matter but constitutes only a small part. [3] [4] The determination of the nature of this missing mass is one of the most important problems in modern cosmology and particle physics. It has been indicated that dark matter and dark energy serve mainly as expressions of our ignorance, much as the marking of early maps with terra incognita. [2]
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