The message from his parents that Superman watches to console himself is them telling him,

in Kryptonian, we've sent you to Earth because this planet needs your help and you have a duty

to humanity and this, you know, this is the best place for you to help the residents of this planet.

And then it gets kind of cut off.

And he says he's only heard the first half of it. And then it's discovered that the second half

has all this stuff about how his dad is telling him to start a harem and that earthlings,

humans are inferior beings to Kryptonians, which that's objectively true.

But that were like, you know, miscreants and were stupid and kind of need to be.

Oh, so that was true.

Lacto who didn't make that up?

Yeah.

That's how I took it.

Because ultimately, because by the end, Superman ends up saying like well i didn't know that

stuff i just heard the beginning and it's kind of this beautiful theme of whatever you do you know if

if you're part of some kind of historical progression right if what you do in the world to try and

change the world has a you, a path to the past where

people are trying to do the same thing and their linkage is there and you're part of this

grand historical project. If you look back, often the origins can be very ugly.

Whatever the thing you're trying to do is, even if in essence it's true, there are blind spots

that Marx had had for instance or

whoever and those are things you have to grapple with and reconcile with and realize it and keep

learning and developing um or you know major religions judaism islam hinduism exactly there are

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