The Centralization Of Imagination

Along with our capacity for thought comes our capacity to imagine. Children in particular have always interpreted the world very imaginatively. I myself remember seeing the Man in the Moon, and Santa and his reindeer when I was little. My own children created narratives full of imaginary characters and at bed time we would create stories based around themselves, transformed into magical super heroes.
In the past, the traditional world of the countryside was peopled by elves and spirits and ferocious creatures, pixies and genies.
But these days the little ones play very few imagination games. This was noticeable when my children went to school. Nearly all the other children had a television in the house. Consequently they did not imagine. Their dreams were laid on for them.
In addition, the children were very much prisoners in school and home. On account of the traffic few children play out, unlike 50 years ago when children would be kicked outdoors only to reappear at bedtime and mealtimes. Children don't even walk to and from school independently.
Hence the decline in imagination and the consequent decline in the intelligence of modern people.
If children's liberty and their independence and their imagination were a priority of the State they would be safeguarded.
However, the priority of the State and the hierarchical institutions that glower over us, is the lockdown of society, the control of every aspect of life.
Hence wall to wall screens, in pubs and bars as well as the dentists, and constant music and noise to block out the reality of life outside the artificial bubble.
So, gone are those happy medieval days when giants and dwarves, heroes and saints walked the earth, when the happy childhood of humanity when the world was filled with awe and wonder.
The imperative of power demands the centralization of power. Imagination is as essential to the existence of autonomous societies as families and networks of friends, and if Hierarchy cannot destroy the imagination totally, it will at least seek to direct it.