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Imagining
the World:
Made by Imagining
Time
is a by-product of movement through space. It is linked to the
relativity of physics as we have come to understand it. It can
change according to the speed at which one's narrow perceptive
sphere moves through the larger material world. Wealth corresponds
not to natural value, but to an accumulation of coded influence.
That influence depends entirely upon how widely accepted is the
code of valuation through which one wields one's influence. Liberty
is based not strictly on natural truth, but on circumstance. There
is a radical existential freedom, but it must be applied to a
world of facts and obstacles, and it must be borne out among the
ideas and desires of others. The time and scope of the individual
is linked to the surrounding world, but informed with the responsibilities
of intellect and free will.
Are
we imagining these relationships? Are they more truth or speculation?
It may be that we can only imagine the world, that we craft
it as we examine it, and that we ourselves are crafted (in our
limits and our liberties) by this process of imagining the realm
we inhabit. It may be that such imagining is not to fictionalize
existence, but rather to conjure images which allow for a more
sound understanding. Imagination may be a tool for reading
the world around us, from which we are in fact separated by
the medium of sensory experience.
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