It's amazing to see how pop culture can take literary references and make them popular once more. I was watching Doctor Who this afternoon and Charles Dickens featured. Some of the greatest minds of all time re-imagined by our standards--Dickens starts out as a close-minded fool but learns to accept that the world is not as it has always seemed. The implication is that it wasn't until after he opened his mind to the possibility of angels and aliens and more that his writing took off.
What does that mean for us? Sheldon, or probably Leonard, makes a comment about how science is focused on facts. We live in such a science focused world that we don't take into account the mysteries of the supernatural or just the unknown. And the people who do are considered crazy. Why can't we understand science and still allow our imaginations to explore the unknown? We've started to allow our minds to explore with shows like "Life After People," "Mega-Disasters," shows like "The Tudors," "Merlin," and even "Doctor Who," but they're mainly based in what we already know, or in myths from centuries ago.
What happened to humanity's imagination? Will we ever be able to let our imaginations run lose, or will we be trapped between our nightmares and science forever? Shakespeare wrote: There are more things of heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. I hope we learn to accept that there will forever be things people don't understand, and things we don't need to understand.
Just a thought...
Stephie
