The Importance of Imagination

i think one of the very best descriptions of modern nationalism comes from a twentieth century political scientist named benedict anderson. He described nation building as kind of like being like world building in a fantasy novel. The importance to be imagined, i think, is that ar it is. Its both real and fictional at the same time. So that you can think about, say, the dutch nation. You don't know where it ends, but it seems very real to people. Andwe it's so real. It's actually understood to be real er.