Do you lack the imagination between how it is and how it ought to be?

Answer 1

the beggar on the street wishes how it ought to be with perhaps 3 full squares a day and a roof over his head and warmth in winter.
The same applies to every level of society. We know what we would like and we certainly have the imagination to know how it ought to be.
It is as simple as wishing and having.

Some of us acquire our wishes and some of us don't. But we can certainly all imagine how it ought to be. So the answer would be NO.

Answer 2

Interesting question in that it makes two assumptions that may not be true or possible?

To assume that one knows "how it is" by what one thinks about what one can hear, or observe suggests that to the tangibly obvious one is also able to add the unseen working behind what is. Someone might be able to be in a state capable of doing this, but it would be very rare.

To assume that "imagination" could consider sufficient unknown to predict the future "ought to be" is perhaps giving too much credit to "luck" or precognition, which in the best of circumstances is colored or prejudiced by what one knows of the present and past.

In Short, one would have to answer the question as yes, one does lack the imagination to "know" how it "ought" to be.

Answer 3

Facinating. How things ought to be is pretty relative. To understand not only your own opinion on how things ought to be but everyone elses is challenging as we are all from such a wide variety of backgrounds.

Also, imagining how to get from your perceived point A (how things are in your mind) to point B (how things ought to be in your mind) is a process and often a complex one. I think most people are capable of both if they choose to quite their brain down enough to think it through. Alas, we are all so inundated by info/ads/work/tv and so on to do it on a regular basis so we just b*t*h and moan.

Answer 4

Some see things and ask why, I dream of things that never were and ask "why not." I have always liked that statement. It has been attributed to Robert Kennedy, but the author of it was George Bernard Shaw. The key is to take the blinders off and look at things with new eyes and from different perpectives. Unfortunately, I am not always able to do that. My ten year old son(today's his birthday) is better at that than I am. Perhaps it is because of all those Lego models he has built.

Answer 5

Not at all! I think most people have, in their own minds, opinions of how things should be rather than how things actually are. We know, for instance, that our justice system needs tremendous changes, and that religions should be more united, and the considered Universal language of English should be adhered to a bit more vehemently. But all these things are merely theories for paper use and likely will never be employed to a degree where our earth will be more peaceful.
I am still in the thought-mode of why it is that we should still be paying the terrible price for the original sin (and I don't believe it was "apple eating" )...hahahaha....I mean c'mon, it happened so long ago, eh? Time to cut loose the punishment for that!! :)

Answer 6

How it is,is not imagination , thats how it is....
How it ought to be is wishful thinking....
So, my answer would be,I have no idea what I am lacking here.

Answer 7

Now see........that's the one thing I forgot to imagine. How I was SUPPOSED to imagine things. So I guess the way I ought to imagine was not the way I did imagine it. Can you imagine that? *shrugs*

Answer 8

Actually ... yes.

You know, this is really interesting.
I always THINK of how i'd like things to be. But there's never any real concreteness to my thoughts. I never actually think of HOW i'd like things to be, i just think of how i'd like them to be different. I don't spend much thought on planning my life and changing things around so that i could be happier. I just vent how things could be so much better than they are. And that obviously doesn't require very much imagination. I just want things to get better. Like with my husband. We've been together for three years. And although i do love him dearly, we fight constantly about the stupidest of things. And i finally decided to take a break. A real one. To actually figure out how things could get better. Not just thinking about it, but how to actually make things better. Like my actions and words. You know? It's awfully hard to truly imagine how to make things better. It's easier to just be a pessimist and state how things are crap. It takes ... courage (for lack of a better word) to take the actual step in making things happen for real.

Imagination is a wonderful thing. But it doesn't make things happen.

Answer 9

No, but sometimes I wish I did. I wonder if people who can't "see" how it SHOULD be are a lot happier. Perhaps they just take things as they are and are satisfied with them. No tweaking, no upgrades, no makeovers, just acceptance..... Thanks, you've given me something to ponder over....

Answer 10

Yup.