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We Got Where We Are Today Due to a Lack of Imagination
This is apparent when you take a closer look at it.
Most of the insanity of the world today is happening, I believe, due to a lack of imagination.
When your so-called leaders are hyper-focused on fleeting power, money, and trying to return to values that never were, this is apparent. Why? Because they’re not able to imagine what doesn’t already exist.
Think about it. Look at the move to return America to the bizarre, idealized 1950s that never were. You know, the one where “men are men” and “women know their place” and the white, straight people are the only real people. A place that never was, but where most of them think we took a wrong turn.
The lack of imagination is evident because they cannot conceptualize the much bigger, global community that is today’s true reality. Yes, all the nations exist — on paper. With the exception of mountain ranges, rivers, other bodies of water, and genuine terrain shifts, all the borders are made-up constructs. Lack of imagination, however, keeps many focused on the lines on the maps because anything else is too big for them to imagine.
Progress, intentional growth, and directed change are products of the imagination. Stepping backwards, trying to return to a time and place that…
