Frontier of Dreams

       "We need men who can dream of things that never were..." - John F. Kennedy


       "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein


       "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were..." - Dr. Carl Sagan


       I was pondering the implications of the wide-spread, gangrenous, highly contagious malleability of the human mind in the world today – the comfortable cage we have fashioned for ourselves...
       The only logical conclusion I could approach, without the hazard of my head exploding, was that there is an apparent tendency to suppress creativity, imagination, individual perceptions and the general will to attain cognitive processes – the system is brilliantly predicated on the baffling necessity we humans have to try to imitate established social norms and to bow to common wisdom.
       It is for that very reason that I have taken upon myself the grand responsibility to attempt to convince – by verbal abuse, most likely –  some of you that the three great men I quoted at the beginning of today's rambling session are, indeed, correct in their presumptions. Of course, I shall let you reach your own conclusions and make your individual decisions – that is, after all, the very reason I am writing all of this.
       I have said repeatedly that we have to learn to think for ourselves, rather than conform to social guidelines. This is, naturally, far from a statement that society is an artificial and unnecessary construct – I actually believe it is fundamental to our sustainability as a species. (Even if there are some fascinating aspects of the current political and socio-economic order that are a tremendous waste of our time.) 
       Therefore, I shall not delve deeper into that particular subject. Actually, I think I had something quite different to say. Ah, yes... I simply want to believe that at some moment in the future, there will be enough people who will have let their imagination guide them to a state of equilibrium for our species.
       Also, this should happen soon – before we blow ourselves up, please.