The refusal to think broadly or imagine the future is a rejection of politics itself.
Take a walk down the yellow brick road and imagine a broadly-based coalition that forms around the environment and then shifts focus to other matters; one that puts aside its differences on divisive issues like gay-marriage and abortion but concentrates on topics of mutual interest like world poverty and children's health care?
Dour soul though Robinson Jeffers was, I imagine he smiled broadly when he wrote those lines.
To a first approximation, most politics are the politics of identity, which means that either I can broadly imagine what it feels like to be you and to see the world as you see it (I identify with you), or I cannot.
If, on the other hand, I cannot broadly imagine what it feels like to be you and to see the world as you see it (I do not identify with you), then when I listen to you, I will be subconsciously asking, "must I believe you?"... and I will only be persuaded if I cannot find any fault with your position at all -- which is never the case if I didn't already start by agreeing with you.
There are other companies with whom I refuse to do business - Nike, Nestlé, Sky, Primark, my local Costa Coffee – and this list fluctuates; I imagine most people are broadly the same.
Health is broadly imagined, including bodies and their vicissitudes, social meanings and contexts, and questions of social and cultural equity in domestic and international contexts.
Renée Richardson Gosline et al. H. James Wilson et al. Any organization intent on surviving and thriving into the future must follow a disciplined approach to "flaring" and "focusing," as it alternates between broadly imagining and vigorously challenging the possibilities.
These findings make intuitive sense if one imagines that a broadly expressed gene must meet the cellular needs in many different cell types whereas a gene expressed in a single or few tissues has to meet the needs of just a single or few cell types.
To offer it more broadly, "you can imagine what kind of resources would have to be made available," said Dr. Martin Smith, head of the hospital's surgery department.
