Empire Of Imagination

Dear Smt. Jayasala:

What an incredible snippet this is and I am surprised no one responded to this snippet. Everything from modern civilization to art and literature to scientific inventions to the construction of holy places, etc. were created from the visualization of people. You have already mentioned many such examples in your snippet. A few other that comes to my mind is the ruins of Pompeii that still visible in Rome after the effects of Lava that flew from the Mount Vesuvius, the beautiful Angkor Wat built in Combodia by King Suryavarman, the Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal built in 17th century, Eiffel Tower in Paris and Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

We can't forget that Kennedy stood before Congress on May 25, 1961, and proposed that the US "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Dreaming and visualizing is one thing but executing it precisely as per visualization is another uphill task. I concede visualization is the first step in making the world better but executing is equally important.

 

No doubt. Imagination, in positive sense, has been a boon to society. It is true in all fields of art, science, culture, politics and so on.
Imagination and ability of observation run side by side. Sahitya smaj ka darpan hai (Literature is the mirror of the society) but it requires a very keen observing power. It is equally true about other fields also.

 

Kudos to madam sister @jayasala42 for your great thought on imagination and to wove a short essay encompassing entire gamut of economic & social activities is fantastic task.

You had rightly pointed out that advances in civilisation has been brought about only by imagination of few who could use it to create new objects devices services and provide better and clear picturesque world for mankind.

Gulliver in Lilliput & Gulliver in Brobdingnag - characters in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes to mind. Then The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha or just Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes comes to mind. At school or college these two were my non details and I relished reading - rather studying- these two novels were great fragments of imagination humour and satire. These two political satire and whatever conceived in these two those ideas were the vanguard of happiness for future political success and development democracy in Great Britain.

I shudder to Imagine a world without imaginations. World bereft imagination would be a rotting vegetable.

Imagination is important for the advancement of humankind. Without imagination, people stagnate — both as individuals and as a society.

Disney land is an example of imagination frolic but scientists derived great ideas to imagine further scientific advancements and creation of newer machines of convenience and comfort for production and services.

The Wright Brothers' dream of inventing a flying machine had come true. It all started when Orville was 7 and Wilbur was 11 years old. Their father, Bishop Milton Wright, gave them a toy helicopter. They as optimists succeeded their visualisation to the execution.
But then a pessimist imagined in case craft gives trouble there must be an escape for crew and others. He imagined visualised and invented the parachute.


For one to arrive at a feeling of Compassion and empathy for fellow beings affected in disaster like quakes or train accidents like air disaster or ship wreckage imagination is a must.

• I am glad that my pal @Viswamitra had observed the best of this snippet of imagination and deservedly nominated as a great and best narration for the ongoing month.

Thanks and Regards.

God blesseth the mankind with imagination in creation

 

No wonder only men respond to this thread.
There is plenty of imagination on this forum. When someone posts with a preamble "I have this friend... who has a problem..." what is concocted after that could be sheer imagination -- someone would point that out soon enough. Jayasala42 should visit the subforums on this site and enjoy.

 

How I wish I had quoted that two snakes trying to swallow each other appeared in dream-imagination lead to the discovery of structural formula and that why and how of Newton’s imagination lead to axioms in dynamics of motion!

Sir Pitman Issac too was wild in his imagination in developing short strokes and dots for sound so that speeches could be written down as it were being uttered.

Hats off to madam sister remembering and quoting here the acme of very wild and great imaginations.

• An interesting fact Is August Kekule a German chemist's somnolent vision of snakes biting tail of the other in a dream that supposedly revealed true structure of the benzene ring …

• Albert Eisenstein too was quite wild in his imagination that lead to wonderful theories of expanding universe, increase in finite mass of the object as it travels with velocity comparable to that of Light*

*The relativistic mass is the sum total quantity of energy in a body or system (divided by c2).

Thanks and Regards.

God bless all with positive imagination.