Majorities of people tend to imitate that which they enjoy,
or that which they believe reflects their likes and dislikes,
or the culture to which they feel they belong (or don't belong).
Consider the numbers of young people (we see them every day) who
dress and/or act in a certain way:
Punk;
Gothic;
Cowboy;
Skinhead;
Gangsta.
This is the realm of social issues, peer pressure, and personal acceptance.
These are issues we all deal with on a daily basis as they affect our lives,
our self-esteem, and the ways we interact with those around us. We can
give in to the pressures and conform to the ways of our would-be peers, or
we can learn to recognize what we need to do and the way we need to be
as individuals, for our own individual growth and personal fulfillment. Each
of us, as individuals, must make that choice, and live with the consequences.
Ask yourself, "Am I living according to the dictates of the music I listen to, or the
movies I watch, or the people I call my friends? Or am I choosing my own unique
path that is right for me as an individual human being?"
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And on a higher level, that of societal
trends and national and global goals,
life imitates imagination as well.
Consider, just in our modern, industrial,
electronic age:
We've built planes in pursuit of
the old myth of flying like a bird;
We've built nuclear-powered submarines
decades after Jules Verne wrote "20,000 Leagues
Under The Sea;"
We've gone into space, again decades after the novel
"First Man On The Moon;"
And more recently, the very first space shuttle, the prototype
of our fleet of re-useable spacecraft, was named "Enterprise"
after the original 1960's television show "Star Trek."
And now, the first ion-drive space vehicle has been named
"Deep Space One" after the third Star Trek TV series,
"Deep Space Nine."
So it appears that life does imitate imagination. But consider this:
Without imagination, Humanity would still be living in caves...
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