24 Aug 2007

imagination dead imagine

yesterday, while having one of the endless discussions about the "young generation", we started talking about the sad possibility that kids nowadays completely lack imagination, due to TV, video games and internet consumption. I will not get into that again, but i must admit that the conversation reminded me about Samuel Beckett's "Imagination dead imagine", nicely illustrated below:


2 comments:

nenorocitu said...

Your debate reminds me of this great article from Malcolm Gladwell.
http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_05_16_a_brain.html

Anonymous said...

video nicely illustrate, i should add... by a bunch of "high school" kids. i believe in kids today. some are doing amazing things - especially responding to the internet digital generation of today.