Lou Gold wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:38 pm
The clip is a great score for the Hero's Journey.
Superman's story is the journey of a hero who wins a victory after a crisis, but that is not what I meant in the quote above. Looking upward requires man what is especially difficult for idealists of a certain kind, and that is to transcend himself and believe in a transcendent meaning. A meaning that is expressed in a real and symbolic way by looking at the sky and releases us, for a flitting moment, from a subjective perception.
In such a reality a person acts the good because it is good and not for the benefit it carries with it. It's a high spiritual level, which includes joy in the spiritual success of supreme righteous people, "Supermen", even if I am not one of them. Their success, however, is in some way my success too.
And in my opinion, even if not always, sometimes there is something in the perfume of the inner world of such "winners", in listening to their "music". There are psalms that open with the line "For the Leader. A Psalm of David.". In Hebrew the word "Leader" (למנצח) has the same letters as "Winner". So what essentially what David is saying is, if you want to be a winner, in the deepest meaning of the word, then this psalm is for you