Plea for the Preservation of the Imagination

Plea for the Preservation of the Imagination: 
Who wants to live without an active imagination? There are so many extraordinary ideas that come from the human imagination.  Must we turn our backs on it to survive and face reality?
We must defend the human imagination against the tyranny of reality.  In the end, it will be imaginations working together that will save us from the various disasters that strike the planet.  When the oil runs out, it will be alternative energy technologies that started out as ideas in the imaginations of engineers.  When the sun dies, it will be the imaginations of the space experts that will relocate the human race to another planet or demoted planet (poor Pluto).  When the resources run out or times are tough, it is the imaginations of writers (many of them brilliant, revered, and dead) that will give people affordable vacations from reality so they don't blow their brains out.  If nothing else can be preserved for the future, let that one thing be the imagination with it's creativity, adaptability, and genius.