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When you can't access pure imagination on demand

My five-year-old asks me to make up a story and I panic because I can't think of anything that isn't derivative or educational.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The creative mind has become so filtered through utility and originality that it cannot produce the simple wonder children naturally expect.

Worth thinking about

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