Yeah not sure I buy this blurb Pete dreams need to be based in reality not idealism. Its fine to motivate people to dream big dreams and ideas but they need to be measured with availability of resources. Marx wrote about an ideal but he neither lived it himself nor practiced it in reality.
Chris, I think the article was more trying to address that fact that people will always dream but their dreams can be taken captive and even enslaved by materialistic philosophies. Walter Brueggemann makes a point about that when he says of ancient Israel that it, ‘came within a whisker of being able to imagine its future only in the terms permitted and sanctioned by Babylon.’ It could be that 21st century Australia has gone beyond that ‘whisker’ and can now only ‘imagine its future … in the terms permitted and sanctioned’ by a bunch of bored executives sitting somewhere on a yacht. Which in real terms translates into your imagination being taken captive by the local shopping mall.
Yeah not sure I buy this blurb Pete dreams need to be based in reality not idealism. Its fine to motivate people to dream big dreams and ideas but they need to be measured with availability of resources. Marx wrote about an ideal but he neither lived it himself nor practiced it in reality.
Chris, I think the article was more trying to address that fact that people will always dream but their dreams can be taken captive and even enslaved by materialistic philosophies. Walter Brueggemann makes a point about that when he says of ancient Israel that it, ‘came within a whisker of being able to imagine its future only in the terms permitted and sanctioned by Babylon.’ It could be that 21st century Australia has gone beyond that ‘whisker’ and can now only ‘imagine its future … in the terms permitted and sanctioned’ by a bunch of bored executives sitting somewhere on a yacht. Which in real terms translates into your imagination being taken captive by the local shopping mall.