(by Chou Leang Hak)
This is the link to his quotable quotes. Of course I'm talkin' about Robert Einstein
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9810.Albert_Einstein
He is considered as one of the most highly respectable geniuses among us earthlings.
One of his quotes, because who he was, draws my hesitant question but I can't dispute.
He noted that; “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination
is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
I don't understand this quote because I know that imagination can only become a reality
with the back up of knowledge. Without knowledge nothing will move forward. So, is it
true that imagination really is more important than knowledge? To me an imagination, like
a movie called Avatar, for example, is a product of a knowledge. Without the "know how",
aka knowledge, an imagination, I myself have a few, is just a dead dream though.
Even though I am mystified by his words I also know that knowledge is surely NOT limited.
It has NO end like space, through which the planets travel, and it has no final frontier either.
But new knowledge is being discovered all the time, as of this very minute, much like a space
probe that is moving on and on in outer space. There is no limit and no frontier that it can
and will reach. So? What was his hidden vision?
There is another quote of his, and I like that one, that implies the situation in Cambodia
under the HS regime. That quote of his says: "The world is a dangerous place to live; not
because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything
about it." The question is who can do what to this bothersome regime in Cambodia? The
Khmer protesters had met ill fate in the past. Many got shot and killed, many wounded,
and many got arrested unjustly. Look! The truth is NOT even the International Court of
Justice can do anything about it. It has NO such thing called the long arm of the law.
In fact its, ICJ, arm is quite short and powerless and not dependable to all the victims of
the unjust governance. Therefore, the ill regime's free will is indeed free to continue to do
whatever it pleases. Who is to blame when shit happens in this world? No one! And the
evil is the winner for the time being. What did John Rambo say about this world before
his heroic mission in Myanmar? He is needed in Cambodia, really. That's my opinion.
Hak
