Taking a Stand for Freedom of Imagination

Our current century is turning out to be distinctly unfriendly toward those who are inclined to think and to speak without fear. In 2021, it is alarmingly common to see vengeful attempts to eradicate any line of thought that goes against the grain of liberal doctrine. It has even been proposed, in certain quarters and among certain kinds of people, that having a venturesome imagination could be a dangerous thing. Writers, in particular, are being strongly discouraged from writing about anything that happens to fall outside their own experience, their own culture, or their own gender.

Once such opinions have been released into the mainstream, they quickly take hold across the liberal media, establishing themselves as fundamental elements of a collective belief that is not to be questioned. Anyone who runs afoul of the collective belief, anyone who makes the "mistake" of thinking and speaking their own thoughts, will find that they have been branded an enemy of the public good, with the liberal rabble calling for them to be punished. When it reaches that stage, no amount of expedient contrition will save a person who has dared to give free rein to their imagination.

Most of these specious, meddlesome opinions are spewed from the fetid halls of well-known universities, where intellectual pomposity and authoritarian liberalism have the upper hand, and where generations of weak-kneed students are processed into a mental state of unthinking acceptance, as if they were no more than dogs being trained to meekly serve their masters. Institutions of higher education are proven adversaries of free thought, and, as such, should be viewed with deep animosity by those who understand the necessity of promoting open speech and straightforward debate.

The time has come for all who believe in the essential human value of thinking freely, and dreaming freely, to take a stand for freedom of imagination. If what we imagine within our own minds, and if how we give expression to what we have imagined, is subject to craven restraints and ill-founded restrictions contrived by others, where will it leave us? Will we end up having to seek abject permission from our liberal controllers before we can voice any thought or express any fancy? Will we be forced to deny our true selves, to finally conclude that it is best, and safest, not to think and not to imagine?

Because I am compelled, as a writer and as a human being, to reject and resist the oppressive effect of such narrow correctness, I hereby affirm that I am fully committed to expressing my imagination as I see fit. I will write about whatever I choose, in whatever manner I choose, without regard for any pettiness, prejudices, or presumptions that might be holding sway. To do otherwise would be cowardly, dishonest, and, perhaps worst, unimaginative. If anyone should take exception to anything that I write, for any reason beyond the actual quality of the writing itself, they can get stuffed.