I think that's a level of intellectual conceit that simply isn't warranted. We can't do that. I think we're living in a world that's increasingly made up of frontiers, of disconnections. I think frontiers, because they create uncertainty and risk, generate ideas and organizations that are barricades. So my prognosis for the future is not that we'll have civic and civil boundaries, but that out of this increasingly frontier, disorienting world, you're going to get new ideologies and new movements that are barricades.
Barricades means dogma, dogma means coercion.
I don't like them. It enables me to start to examine empirically what the world is. So imagination I think of as the word. Concrete studies I think of as the flesh. And I enjoy doing that.