{"id":1275,"date":"2011-06-16T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2011-06-16T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:16:57","slug":"quote-for-the-day-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2011\/06\/16\/quote-for-the-day-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero’s facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced \u2014 in a word, insane. \u2026 Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.<\/p>\n

–Frank Herbert, in Omni Magazine<\/p>\n

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