You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.
Do we want our superheroes realistic? Do we want them as ideals? Our heroes used to exist in fantasy universes, then when we found that we could not pull ourselves up to their level, we dragged them down and brought them down to ours. Do we go to superheroes because they represent realism? Or is it now about how any one of us could be a hero?
Superman has always been an ideal, which dis-intuitively inspires us more than if our heroes were more "realistic." The recent Dark Knight trilogy brings this to the head, where arguably it's the everyday citizens, and even everyday criminals, who are more capable of heroism than our protagonist.
Superman is both. He's always been Superman. And he's always been Clark Kent. Jor-El's speech in the trailer is the perfect metaphor here, coming out at the perfect time: we as an audience may not be ready for a Big Blue Boy Scout, and we may not even deserve it, but that's what we're getting, because that's what we need.
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