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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (16094)	12/12/2003 12:46:19 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

You're missing the point. While we may see manifestations in popular culture for the masses in people like Pablo Picasso, Madame Curie, the Wright Brothers, filmmakers, T Edison, Henry Ford, Vladimir Lenin, etc etc etc, they are but the visible pinnacle of a huge underlayment of activity. Especially compared to the Age of Enlightenment, or any prior period you may pick (where the few involved people exchanged correspondance with one another) the sheer number of people and their creations is staggering. How many books published, how many art forms, in the 20th century, compared to all others?? Imagination includes, but is more than taking your mind to another realm, or mentally constructing another realm. In fact, your "pathway" regime sounds like a recycling of the "houses of memory" from the age of Voltaire, where people compared recitations of prodigious amounts of memorized material through narrations of visits to imaginary "great houses" going from "room to room" and describing the people and contents of each room. While today's onslaught of SUV ads, slick flyers, media bombardment may preclude the average person from replicating the "castles of memory" that people 300 years ago could construct, "Imagination" today in our society is a huge multiple of the 19th Century. Who then could imagine the sexual imagination displayed on the internet alone? average_joe, I also look with disfavor upon the thinking that "active agents" are at work trying to suppress imagination. That speaks of a Don Quixote looking to battle "negative forces". It is a wrong POV imho.