THE SUPERMAN
The
Superman isn't the thing
That
Nietzsche's 'great noontide'
Might
lead one to believe,
But
a life form superior to man
And inferior to the Superbeing.
The
Superman won't be God but godly,
For
the Holy Spirit will be transcendent,
While
the Superman
Will
be partly mundane
And therefore tied to the beastly.
But
he will be far less sensual than man,
Because
freed from the natural body
And
thereby elevated
To
the post-human heights of
A
brain artificially ran.
Having
an old brain
Will
keep him inferior to the Superbeing
Of
the millennial communes
Which
are destined to supplant him
With the termination of all pain.
But
the old brain will be
Kept
under tight control
As
he expands the new brain
With
the aid of such synthetic drugs
As the leaders may extol.
And
thus he will know a superior form
Of
upward self-transcendence
To
transcendental man,
Whose
television spirituality in appearance
Is the contemporary norm.