"I'm king of the world," said movie director James Cameron upon learning that he had won the Oscar for best director of a film (Titanic) in 1997. In the same way that we understand former Beatle John Lennon's 1966 remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus to be more social commentary than anything else, so we can understand Cameron's assertion as the same. At that particular point in cinematic history, he was, perhaps, the "king." Titanic broke box office records all over the world.
Yet how do we picture a king? How do we envision a ruler? The ones we admire most are those who have used their positions to not merely enrich themselves, but rather the lives of those whom they rule. They elevate a society; they do not seek to make it subservient to their whims. The best rulers are servants.
On the one hand, this is highly ironic: a ruler serving those whom she rules. On the other hand, it is entirely logical: of what good is the power to rule if it does not recognize the enormous weight of humility it requires?
After all, there is only one God.
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