As far as I'm concerned, John Lennon is the author of this millennium's anthem. Picture a world united by this type of imagination, and destroying the societal rot and fungus of religious fundamentalism everywhere. Imagine no more crazy fucking theocracies, no Jerry Falwell, too. No cliterectomies, or the bad type of stoning if you screw. You may call me a dreamer, yea, but fuck if I'm going to waste what may be my only shot at life prostrating myself in front of a fairy tale, or let those who worship fairy tales tell anybody else what to do based on their own retarded literal interpretations of such fairy tales. Imagine a human race which chooses reality--at least as its base--and then takes its highly-recommended flights of fancy from there.
Edward Albee once said [pp], "It's OK to have illusions, as long as you know they're illusions."
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."