What hope is there for individual reality or
authenticity, when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of
guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be
authentic and fulfilled human beings?
The only hope, is in the creation of alternative
values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place
in the world -- a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self
becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the
accepted frontiers of things. Ben Okri
Remembering John Lennon's "Imagine."
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