At a convention of superheroes, a small group of them discusses what they could do if they really dedicated themselves to making the world a better place. But then they explore what that will mean for them and why they might not want to actually do it.
This story is a fitting metaphor for why we as societies and individuals don’t solve our biggest problems. The solutions are just too mundane, require drudgery, and take too long. They are no fun for the people of means. In the story, this really stirs up the reader’s emotions against the superheroes while, strangely, also making the reader sympathetic to them. Like real life problems, it turns out things are more complicated than they seem.
Length: 860 words (less than 5 minutes)
My rating: 4/5
