I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that action movies and our helter skelter western sinful lady of babylon western society have done imagination any harm. In fact, having met old people, I'm not sure imagination was ever in great supply.
Truly imaginative people are rare little birdies, and I'd bet my balls that they always have been.
Of course, with a thriving commercial art scene (art covers the whole shebang here) it's pretty profitable to fake imagination and draw inspiration from other sources. The vaguer the source, the more imaginative the artist.
If you mean "visualising", then that's gone right down the crapper.
Despite all my bitching here, I'll wind down and say originality's on the up.
"A robot that turns into a car!? Who comes up with this stuff!?"
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(That's why I find so funny that so many people judge the quality of a book by how accurately it describes things and specially the stage, they think good literature is about including photographic descriptions (with good adjectives) of every place. Many times there's a point in descriptions but that's just ridiculous and opposite to the way to go. If an author is doing that he should be making a movie. [/b]
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Never actually met anyone who thinks like this, but I can see why they'd get on your wick.
Old Man and the Sea! Nary a detail the whole way.
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A badly written book, however, is near worthless. [/b]
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Harry Potter's worth how much now?