Neil Gaiman enthuses me on so many levels! Mostly he confirms for me that a generation without fiction is a generation without imagination...a generation that will be easily led into the lap of Ahriman, into the lap of dead thoughts. If we pause for a moment to think on it, we will see that we become what we imagine we can become, imagination is a function of the soul - the battle for this faculty is a turning point for human beings. theguardian/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming?CMP=twt_gu We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world weve shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled. We have an obligation to tell our politicians what we want, to vote against politicians of whatever party who do not understand the value of reading in creating worthwhile citizens, who do not want to act to preserve and protect knowledge and encourage literacy. This is not a matter of party politics. This is a matter of common humanity. Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. If you want your children to be intelligent, he said, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. He understood the value of reading, and of imagining. I hope we can give our children a world in which they will read, and be read to, and imagine, and understand. Thanks go to my friend Cayr Ariel Wulff for this article.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 23:16:37 +0000
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