Not when I was young but with the wisdom of age, I've come to believe that artists are the major movers of progress. Artists do the really creative thinking; they're responsible for all progress. Would we ever have thought of going to the moon if it weren't for dreamers like Jules Verne? And look how many inventions came out of pursuing that idea when we decided to do as the author said. I sometimes think that man will eventually do all that he can think of; all that his artists come up with. Mankind just can't help itself but act upon ideas. Artists provide the ideas. They're the engine that moves the whole machine. They knew it way back when they called artists shamans priests and seers, and respected those titles and the wisdom they represented, but today shaman priest seer are words used mostly derisively. Such people get less respect than Rodney Dangerfield. Everyone is too enamored of a science that may hold no truth at all but has been crafted solely to work in our microcosm. I mean, this is our microcosm and all progress involves understanding and controlling it. But there is a limit to thinking this way because once we escape our microcosm, the rules turn out to be different. You can see it in quantum physics. Things like that, in our world, I can't be two places at the same time, but in the famous double slit experiment, a single photon passes through 2 sep[arate slits simultaneously. In fact, Richard Feynman claimed that the photon not only took those two paths, but took all of the possible paths. It was everywhere at once! Enough.
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