If everybody were being perfectly honest with you, they would tell you the truth, which is that they all want to be invisible so that they can shoplift, get into movies for free, go to exotic places on airplanes without paying for airline tickets, and watch celebrities have sex. People who chose invisibility imagined themselves lurking, eavesdropping, and peeping. He was disappointed that no one wanted to use their superpower to fight crime.
The humorist and actor John Hodgman explained that he had been asking people this question for years at meetings and dinner parties, and that their choice revealed primal desires and unconscious fears. It was a test of character and a probe of the zeitgeist.
These are “two of the superpowers which have fascinated humans since antiquity,” said the host, Ira Glass. Some twenty years ago the radio program This American Life asked listeners which of two superpowers they would choose: flight or invisibility.
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