Idealism and Belief--The Seedbed of Destruction

When you're elementary school age, your imagination is exceptionally powerful, and due to a lack of real world experience it's difficult to even distinguish between what's real and what is being imagined. I distinctly remember sitting in a sandbox with the neighborhood kids and playing with matchbox cars. We built houses and roads of sand. As far as I was concerned at the time, it was real and "I" was there in that imaginary world.

Real experience starts to sharply distinguish what is "real" and a real outcome from what is merely imagined. For example, if you try to build a fort when you're ten years old, the act of building with a hammer and nails and wood scraps yields a real world thing that's distinct from what was imagined.

It's truly bizarre that the world of imagination of young people is left open to corporations, Hollywood, the government, and other bad actors. If the imagination is like a garden bed, it's left wide open for seeding with weeds from malicious people. Basically everything we believe and aspire to is shaped by degenerates and psychopaths for the own purposes.

As an example, think how most people, like me when I was growing up, learn about relationships between men and women. We see depictions of it by Hollywood every day--our expectations are shaped by it so vanity and foolishness guide most people to unhappy ends.

Our imagination of how the world should be in general is shaped by fever dreams and scams. The technicolor fever dream keeps us heading through the twisting and turning paths of a slaughterhouse corral. We can just turn around and walk out at any time.

The reclamation of our own imagination is really like re-learning everything. The frontier really is everywhere.