The Destructive Cost of Superpowers in Real Society

Hysheem Durham
3 min readAug 10, 2020

Can We Acknowledge Some Good Things First?

We’re all aware of the good that superpowers can bring to our current living situations. A technopath(someone who can mentally control machinery and/or create new electronics at will) for a computer technician — maybe a bunch of telepathic psychologists who can pinpoint every vulnerability within the brain?

All in all, it’s safe to say that with the rise of powers, there’s a large amount of jobs that would become available to people of almost any power variety. Many new occupations would be available as well, ones that wouldn’t come across our unpowered minds as necessity.

However, this may include power based slavery for those who aren’t very powerful-which is obviously far from acceptable, but as many countries have proven, is more than likely.

Now Allow Yourself to Think Drastically

In the year of 2020, it’d be pretty hard to ignore that citizens of the same countries do not get along with one another due to the divides between human rights and those who prefer to give rights to government powers(which they already have). In other words, debates on guns would be floored, as superpowers would take hold as the primary source of weapons and defensive measures for all who gain them.

Now, most times, North America avoids civil wars by lulling parties and-or policing the rights and passions of citizens to fight for what they think is right.

Many protests have proven in this time, that fights would be inevitable across political parties. There’d be no more white supremacists with guns yelling at police, they’d be fighting.

And with that, comes the inevitable end of the consistent amounts of favoritism shown towards police and Caucasian citizens.

Considering these powers are new, it’s very unlikely that there would be a way for government powers to handle them.

In fact, it’d be more unlikely for the high-end Democrats and Republicans to remain civil with each other on a professional level.

Racism will develop a new subcategory of power based discrimination and (more than not) xenophobia depending on which country develops the most diversity amongst different powersets.

Superpowers would be a stalemating addition to almost any war, but just like guns, they’d be extremely hard to regulate long before it’d be realistically possible for the U.S and various other countries to counteract.

The debate of whether or not powers to the masses could be a good thing is essentially useless. Things like guns and bladed weapons allow many people to see the currency of power that certain classes have over others. Superpowers would be the cause of a much flashier and cinematic gun fight, but without the restrictions that many people would have against getting a licensed weapon.

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Hysheem Durham

I’m an unorthodox story writer, visual artist, and I make videos for youtube!