how to think

so you've got pure imagination which is just u sitting in a chair imagining and day-dreaming; then next you've got imagining except you've had someone tell you something, like a science fiction idea, which turns on your own wheels of imagination, that basically leads to conversation which is such a lost art and it's terrible. kids today learn that the only thing worth anything is what they're shown on tv and such, that THEIR OWN imagination is second rate. that there's no way that their OWN imagination could compete with millions of dollars spent on some Disney film and such; and i'm not knocking filma and all; i love film; it's great fun and can be great for sparking your own imagination. but there's the question: do you let it spark your own imagination, or do you just soak it in like a sponge, let it sit in your head, and think about IT on IT's terms, rather than questioning it, or allowing it to spark your own mind..........and after conversation you have reading where you'll imagine everything based on what you've read; neither the visual or the audio is given to you; you create both audio and video in your mind. the characters voices, any music, what everything looks like; then next is radio (btw: which is one of my favorite words: and my favorite sentance-fragment in the english language is "..............sits chain-smoking at a table"......... so with radio you are given the audio and you create the video; and then there's film where you are given the audio and video, but as of yet not the senses of touch, taste or smell; but most of it is given to you. and i like all of it. i don't hate film. i'm not a snob. i am an intellectual, which i define as someone who likes to think. an intellectual can be stupid or smart or whatever. they just like learning, they see their brain as a place to create, not just absorb

this is what's so goddamned wrong with modern education. our digital world (which i love btw, just as long as it's understood that digital/computer/etc is not an end-all be-all and is not always the best way of doing things. it's a method; it's goddamned wonderful when i can play games with folks online, or talk about shit, or folk......... (ok, that's another favorite word: not "folks" but "folk"; the "s" is redundant and makes a cool word into "just a word"; also "y'all" is great......i'll continue this in next blog)......... in africa can reach the red cross to relay critical information about famine and natural disasters and such (in that order or importance of course.............yes that's called sarcasm, learn it, you won't hate your life or yourself quite so much..........................well at least not your life, yourself might be worth hating, i don't know you well enough to say so