Paradigm and Game Changer

Yesterday I mentioned Bazin's idea of the Myth of Total Cinema, the cinematic image created by human in an ultimate attempt to completely replicate reality. And we wonder why human want to do that. In a way the myth is just a myth, may be there is no such motivation in the human nature or may be it is something-else. However there is a key point in what it means to completely replicate reality. There has to be a reality in the first place to be replicated. In effect this is very different from creating a fantasy world, or a very different reality. Instead the replication has to be a form of semblance of an existing reality, that's the paradox. It is as if one rejects and denies a certain reality by replicating it and yet the replication itself has to come from the rejected reality. There is a certain contradiction, why remake a reality when one can simply change the existing reality, why there is the work to completely recreate it? of course in our existing reality a lot of limitations for the individual, depending on circumstances and background, one's life can only works toward a maximisation of potential, given a certain life span. Instead of being an omnipotent god in another reality or a fantasy world where one can do anything, it seems much more liberating to overcome existing limit and excel in an existing reality where such limits are not easily overcome. By being able to do that is extremely satisfying, more like the notion of being superman than being god in another universe where omnipotent is normal. This makes me think of people who want to change the world or politicians who aspire to have power to change the rules of the game in which this reality is based on. To impose one's will in this reality and shape it is exhilarating than living in a fantasy world where one's whims and wishes are always satisfied. One can imagine the addiction and falling for the spell of absolute power in this reality, by being a dictator or a authority, whether one really have supreme power is not the point, but the imagined limitless possible extension of that power over the world or other individuals.