What If…

In this essay I will attempt to describe in words what the world might look like if a majority of its inhabitants had better tastes, desires, wants, and needs across a wide variety of choices. It is based on Einstein’s premise that imagination is a lot more important to human progress than is knowledge. For starters, digest that thought before declaring me insane!

And so, what if we all sharpened our perspectives about what constitutes “the good” in the arts and sciences, in housing, music, sports, clothing, employment, transportation, medicine, literature, education, physical and mental fitness; also in exploration, games, science, and freedom; while we also had a much stronger voice in making changes a reality? The world might be vastly improved across the entire spectrum of human activities. Wars would be outlawed, conflict resolution would be a part of everyone’s attitude. Utopia might be upon us!

Again, before you declare me insane, think about new energy sources in place, about conquering global climate issues, about magnificent orchestral renderings on demand wherever we are, about disease after disease falling victim to progress in medicine. Our present frontiers and inefficiencies would fall to better models shown to us by artificial intelligence models. Almost certainly a lot more love would surround the globe and permeate our surroundings.

Also, before announcing me as a walking nut case, think about new instructional classes in Imaginary Thinking where the best and the brightest students were in search of different ways of doing almost everything? We would all need to start thinking in new ways about almost everything to keep abreast.

Think about how mundane it would be to want more wealth than others when we already have immense wealth? Think about the time wasted in doing chores better left to a quirky thought that gives us new and easy ways of cleaning up the environment. We might be able to walk through a force field that could diagnose and cure us of wounds and infirmaries, of finding love instead of hate, of being a walking, talking source of inspiration.

Is this all just crazy thinking? Well, think about trying to explain television to those who lived just 1,000 years ago. Or supersonic air planes to warriors from the past. Our imaginations probably cannot transport us to the past, but it lets us have those conversations now. And you would look like a fool if you had to apologize to our ancestors that they and all future generations were stuck with sticks and stones to mend their weary bones. Shame on you.

Finally, a brain-dead politician would be totally out of his/her element who wanted to fall back to a time period when thugs and tyrants made the rules for serving them. We might be able to snap our fingers and have them transported to a place where they were forced to live iwith the power of imaginations.