My loyalty is to Imagination
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My loyalty is to Imagination
“Legacy narratives” have a stronghold over the public imagination. They carry entrenched traditions and associated messages that reinforce the narrative, power structures, and signals anchoring our self-identities.
the capacity to cultivate and foster alternatives to social, political, cultural and economic conditions; it is a prerequisite for changing the world for the better.
The Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argues that humans became the most powerful creatures on the planet because of our imagination, our ability to tell stories and to ask ‘what if?’35 What if we revived that capability, in great abundance, starting now?