I thought we'd killed off all the ants in California by now.
I've tried. Oh, how I've tried. *weeps*
I have trouble understanding how telepaths aren't, like, completely impossible to anger and also pretty cynical about other people (although at the same time optimistic? Because they can't really fail to see how other people justify awful things to themselves, or their motivations).
I've put a lot of thought into this. (Well. Obviously. Telepathophobe, here.) And I think - well, for story reasons, telepaths as powerful as Jean and Xavier have to be good; they go to the bad, that's pretty much it for everyone, you know? (Talk about your ludicrously overpowered characters. Yikes.)
But for actual logical reasons, I think telepaths would be just - I don't know. Neither cynical nor optimistic. Because they'd see the full range of humanity, and they'd know - no one is all good or all bad. People do things for good reasons and stupid ones. Basically, they'd have a really, really good appreciation of what it means to be human, and a balanced outlook on people and human nature.
Which is what fascinates me about Jean. Xavier has obviously learned to apply this knowledge to himself; he's pretty aware of the reasons why he does things and that he's neither all good nor all bad. But Jean, hmm. Does not appear to have reached that level of self-awareness.
<> And Professor X--er, at least he can't kill me if I'm wearing a metal hat.
Xavier lives in a mansion filled with teenagers. I'm surprised he doesn't wear the metal hat.
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I've tried. Oh, how I've tried. *weeps*
I have trouble understanding how telepaths aren't, like, completely impossible to anger and also pretty cynical about other people (although at the same time optimistic? Because they can't really fail to see how other people justify awful things to themselves, or their motivations).
I've put a lot of thought into this. (Well. Obviously. Telepathophobe, here.) And I think - well, for story reasons, telepaths as powerful as Jean and Xavier have to be good; they go to the bad, that's pretty much it for everyone, you know? (Talk about your ludicrously overpowered characters. Yikes.)
But for actual logical reasons, I think telepaths would be just - I don't know. Neither cynical nor optimistic. Because they'd see the full range of humanity, and they'd know - no one is all good or all bad. People do things for good reasons and stupid ones. Basically, they'd have a really, really good appreciation of what it means to be human, and a balanced outlook on people and human nature.
Which is what fascinates me about Jean. Xavier has obviously learned to apply this knowledge to himself; he's pretty aware of the reasons why he does things and that he's neither all good nor all bad. But Jean, hmm. Does not appear to have reached that level of self-awareness.
<> And Professor X--er, at least he can't kill me if I'm wearing a metal hat.
Xavier lives in a mansion filled with teenagers. I'm surprised he doesn't wear the metal hat.