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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6226984" data-attributes="member: 59082">Umbran, as I wrote before, you're taking a single quote ("tree") and missing the total argument ("forest"), and then repeating that same mistake. No offense, but that's what politicians do when they're trying to smeer their opponents - they take quotes out of context to make them look bad. Here's a (hopefully humorous) example. Let's saying you hear me say the following:Black people are inherently better at basketball.You might think, "he's a racist!" But what if that sentence was part of a larger sentence?One might think that black people are inherently better at basketball because of the high percentage of African Americans playing in the NBA, which is much higher than the population; but that would be an over-simplification that we must better understand through looking at cultural and contextual factors.I feel that you did something similar with my post, teasing out one sentence you disagreed with and missing the rest of it that framed it in a way that the meaning of the quote you pointed out wasn't as sharply defined or stated as you implied.For instance, you seemingly missed the last part where I said it wasn't about what was old school or new school, but imagination itself.Yeah, I agree with you - but that's not the point of my OP or his thread, to "determine which is objectively best." What I was doing was exploring different angles around, not trying to argue for which is best. As I said in the OP, I wasn't (and am not) trying to write a Definitive Statement about imagination, old and new school, but paint impressionistic pictures and explore the relationship between imagination and rules, etc. That said, I do think too many rules can obfuscate the flow of imagination and that there "better" and "worse" ways to facilitate imaginative flow. I'm not saying that there's a clear or definitive answer, but that its worth exploring.</blockquote>

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