AMUSEMEANTS

As humans, we imagine… and we do so much more than we often admit to ourselves. We imagine the gratuitous as well as the consequential, alone and in masses. We imagine as a means of coping with the condition of our awareness-of what is, of what is not, of what might be. Our awareness is so pervasive that we are aware of our awareness, engendering an insatiable obsession to control the subjects of that awareness. We are control freaks and that fundamentally imaginative condition is the kindling for ingenuity and destruction, greed and generosity, healing and violence, truth and duplicity. It sparks the curiosity to learn and the religious impulse to wonder, both forms of truth-seeking. This dynamic tension between truth and artifice is the liminal ground from which the imagination is stirred to make meaning out of the disparate elements of our experience. As much as any science or psychology, living life is an imaginative experience. The sooner we accept this condition, the sooner we..