Many Wish To Be Ridiculously Powerful

[Razard86]

This is a concept explored through One-Punch Man and also in this short video...what happens when you become too powerful.  Well..there is nothing to do. Some curse their limitedness and their mortality....maybe just maybe it's a blessing...

 

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

Yup, this is what will happen at the end of time when you have managed to overcome all obstacles, fulfill your every desire and completely merge with the boundless essence of the Godhead... you'll be so fucking bored that you reboot the entire game and just start from scratch.

[hyruga]

Wow I didn't know there's an Ultra Vegito. Didn't know that dragonball has so many series and Goku isn't the strongest.

[Franz_]

On 2023. 09. 15. at 8:55 AM, Guest Bazooka Jesus said:

Yup, this is what will happen at the end of time when you have managed to overcome all obstacles, fulfill your every desire and completely merge with the boundless essence of the Godhead... you'll be so fucking bored that you reboot the entire game and just start from scratch.

you mean after physical death?

[caspex]

This is a theme you find common across all mechanisms in reality that operate on survival.

Balance.

Survival is all about balance and when the balance breaks the survival fails. 

 

Organisms seek massive power because that's a balancing act between their desire and limitations of the world. Survival makes it so the struggle is the point. Only way two planks of wood can stay upright is if they lean on each other. Till this balance is maintained they are upright. This balance requires resistance, leaning and pushing on the other plank. If one plank stops pushing as hard it will fall over due to pressure of the other planks and they both fall.

Everything we do is about balance. Our desires are unlimited because we are limited. This is why the way to achieve freedom is not through fulfilling desires but through not having any at all. 

 

This is common trope within media where the strongest character loses meaning in competitions of strength. Because there is no struggle, the survival has failed. Being the strongest is the same as being the weakest. Both lose interest. The point was always to struggle but because their desire to achieve perfection was part of the balancing act, they never realized it.

In vagabond, Miyamoto Mushashi turns inward to find true strength rather than chase external strength. This way he connects to the only thing in reality that isn't dependent on survival, consciousness.