When we had to do book reports I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies so we'd have Godzilla...
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions at certain stages of history perpetuate and produce such a deficit and even threaten human survival.
