We dream of being superheroes

Mural at Clinton School, originally uploaded by trexfiles23.

Writing on the Siegel case this week reminds me once more of the murals at PS 11 in Manhattan. The desire to be transcendent--to fly, to be magical, to travel to impossible places--is fundamental to human experience.

Siegel and Shuster used the comics medium to create a person who went beyond natural laws while embodying our higher moral nature. People who create corporate identities--charity, nonprofit, and yes, even for-profit--are doing much the same thing, albeit in different media with different effects.

One impulse taking expression in a variety of forms--it's the story of life.