This. Is. Brilliant! Incredibly bleak, and I love the whole dystopian world you created here. The first sentence confused me, as I attempted to understand how this was a bad world in which Superman lives. I think I am just not understanding your reference (if any). Still, this is brilliant.

Thank you! Here is sort of what inspired me. It was floating around in my brain and got snagged. My version is science-based in that we/they created something that is unstoppable. Hope it helps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

Great ficly, a wonderful rendition of that moment I hope never happens.

“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
– Mario Savio, Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

Really good! I thought of the book 1984 and many other utopian/dystopian stories. If all bad is gone how then can we measure good?

I like the quote Jae. this story reminded me of a Tacitus quote – “A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man”

Once again RQ, this is a fine story by a fine author. 5 pencils fine