“What if? A rotary reflection”
A hundred years or so philosophers, used to argue about the use of “imagination”. I have on my bookshelves an inherited book titled “the problem of art”, such was the concern about imagination. Now they talk about “thought experiments”. You’ll have to ask a philosopher why art is a problem.
I prefer the word imagination. People in Rotary have asked the question, what if, And how? What if we could make a peaceful world and how can we help? What if we could end polio?
Today we will see the work of people in Rotary Melbourne, who set about asking “what if” we could do something and how do we do this after listening to the locals?
So, I am grateful for the flights of imagination, of fancy even, that Rotarians have made over the decades and here, for the century nearly. To ask, what if.
Philip Cornish
