Thursday, November 13, 2014
Social Imagination
I agree with the quote "We all have our
social imagination: the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what
might be in out deficient society, on the streets where we live, on our schools."
The beginning of the quote is true enough. "We all have our social
imagination", however, may be technically incorrect because it claims that
everyone has a sense of imagination and imagination might be something that not
everyone has. Aside from that, the quote is true. Everyone has the ability to
view something however they want. Having the ability to imagine what society
should and should not be like does not mean that the person is going to be able
to change that society that he or she lives in. If the quote is saying that
everyone has the ability to imagine the world that they think would be perfect,
then the quote is probably true because anyone can imagine something. Most
people would want a society that is peaceful where all the bad things like death
and destruction do not exist which I think would make a very boring society.
Sometimes there is that one person who instead of just imagining the society
they want to live in, they actually go out and try to make the real world more
like how they saw it in their mind and that is a wonderful thing to do because
that person is trying to make their reality just as awesome as how they imagine
it. I am kind of glad that not many people try to go out and change things to
the way that they think is right because if everyone did that then nothing
would be right and it would be chaos. There is probably at least one person who
is like "hey chaos that is my kind of society". So I guess yeah sure I
agree with the quote. The way it is worded though makes it really strange
because nowhere does it actually mention taking an appropriate course of action
towards achieving your desired choice of society. All it says is that everyone has
the ability to imagine what kind of society they want so perhaps what it is
actually trying to say is that a person can dream about a perfect society but
will never actually get it. That would actually suck quite a bit unless people
develop some sort of virtual reality Matrix or something to throw people's
thoughts and desires into a computer generated world and let them live out
their lives happy. Hey that was a plot from Supernatural where Dean fights that
djinn and it sends him into that alternate universe where his life is the way
he wanted and Dean has to wake up before the djinn drains all of his blood and
kills him. Right spoiler alert. Well to summarize up my answer to this question
that required way less than five hundred words to answer, I do in fact agree
with the quote "We all have our social imagination: the capacity to invent
visions of what should be and what might be in out deficient society, on the
streets where we live, on our schools."
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I like how you mention how not everyone has a sense of "imagination"
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