The crucial component of what makes people advanced or laggard is the quality of their imagination. The Western rise to mastery of the world is about the growth of their imaginative power. The history of the modern age or modernism is the history of the evolution of the Western mind. Through the Reformation, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and finally the USA, they improved and calibrated their thinking prowess. Yes, the USA, the Western country planted and flourishing on a conquered landmass, epitomises the power of Western thinking.
The point is the liberation of imagination. It needs a liberated imagination to think from one's position in time and space. Time is itself a crucial piece of imagination. Time is a mental construct chiefly for the assessment of the potential and prospects of existing realities.
Liberation and thus progress begins from our minds. Mind it, every limitation which makes our lives less livable gets its sustenance from our own constricted imagination.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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