Fifth reflection: Being God

Being superior to others, is it really good?

    I always thought being a god, one individual that has more knowledge and more power than any other in the world, would be pretty cool.  I would become the high and mighty, and everyone would fear and respect me.  However, after reading the paragraph in Oryx and Crake about Snowman and the various ways that he created a religion-like thing among the crakers, I feel that being god is not fun at all.  

  Snowman is very lonely, and there is no one of his status whom he could talk to.  All that he sees are intellectually inferior beings.  While he may feel that he has the most power, there is no place to use that kind of power.  In a world without the things he was used to, like chocolate and beer, what can he do with the prestige?  It is like putting a grown adult amidst a group of 4-year-olds.  They respect you, but you cannot have a proper conversation, and you cannot have what you would like to have.  No one in Snowman's world has the technology to make electronics, the knowledge to write books, or the experience to cook food such as chocolate.   He may be important, but he enjoys life so much less.  For these reasons, I would much rather be a middle class individual in an advanced society than a lonely god in some primitive world.