Friday, July 31, 2009

J.K. Rowling at Harvard in 2008

...I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ...those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy...We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better (from part two)...


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