The World according to the Unimaginative

I think I can understand why some people have trouble ‘thinking outside the box’. For these people, these orthodox thinkers, approaches and ways of thinking and acting are meaningless without mass acceptance. For these people with no imagination mainstream acceptance of certain actions and mental methodologies give meaning to and establish what they see as a tangled mass of randomness. I have an imagination, therefore I can extract meaning as and when I please without having to wait decades for approval from the masses. But that does not mean that I cannot sympathise with those who have no imagination. Sure they are mind bendingly boring and when in positions of power they destroy business enterprise, cripple governments and generally hold the progress of the human race back, but they do deserve compassion. That and a dead end job doing something repetitive, like screwing the caps onto tubes of toothpaste. They like that sort of thing.