Imagination
Some weeks back, J. said she thought many people had no imagination. I think it's one of her world-dissing reactions, like my "everyone's stupid!". But what does it mean?
- not being able to imagine that things can be different?
- not having much of an inner life?
- perhaps worrying too much about the what is rather than what can be?
- having no courage, because there's nothing to oppose?
- having no ideas, since ideas are ideas of change?
- having no vision, since vision requires seeing the world differently than the accepted?
- being concerned with other's opinions, with received wisdom, with fashion, with etiquette-- all the different ways of constructing social consensus, as the only way of knowing things?
- being jellylike -- interests are those you think you should like, etc?
- being concerned with appearances, because there's nothing else?
- wanting powerful father/mother figures to help determine the course of life?
- not being an individual? (cue Monty Python :-) )
- getting attached to other peoples imaginations-- their fictions, stories, cause can't do it themself?
- perhaps intolerant of difference?
- Probably lots of map/world confusion, literal interpretations, cause notion of model requires separation between world and interpreter?
It's kind of like a version of asperger's, a blindness of sorts. Blind to possibility. Blind to reality because of focusing on the finger.
No idea if it's true, of course.
