"The most devalued quality on the planet is imagination. Children are supposed to play with it like a toy. But when they reach the age of consent it should be gone. Because it doesn't fit into the world. What fits in the world is finding your place. Having a skill that someone will pay for. Holding a job in which you can exercise that skill and then , you know, basically complaining for the rest of your life. Imagination is the most devalued quality on the planet. And yet every once in a while it becomes apparent to large numbers of people that someone they admire and respect very much who has succeeded wildly in some way has done so through the power of his own imagination. People are trained out of imagination. They are trained into the most hardheaded practical reality they can discover where they are supposed to live until they die. And they are supposed to be proud of the fact. Paying no attention to the underlying truthes which if you are holding a job somewhere and you are working for somebody, somewhere prior to you coming on board somebody's imagination created something that is allowing you to collect a paycheck. "
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