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Today in class we were speaking about fantasy and intelligence and which is more important or superior. The first example that immediately came to mind was that of inventions. It takes a great fantasy of a particular individual to conjure up such an idea, but it also takes the intellect of that individual, or maybe an associated individual to make that fantasy become a reality. If you notice, when new inventions are introduced into the market, you will always hear someone say, "I thought of that same idea and could have been a millionaire right now". That's what distinguishes someone with just fantasy from a person with fantasy and intellect combined.

I'm hardly an avid Simpson's viewer anymore but I recall one episode where they incorporated this idea into the show. Homer's brother gave him the task of inventing a car. His only task was to "fantasize" a car and he was provided with an entire team ("intellects") to bring his fantasy to reality. In the end, it was a complete disaster because Homer's fantasy was ridiculous and the "intellects" were just as ridiculous for allowing it...but now that I think about it, it is possible that that episode displayed that it's those that have the capability of fantasizing that bring intellectual ideas to the table and it is the "intellectuals" that make those ideas tangible to us. So who are the true intellectuals? The ones that follow protocol that they have acquired through higher education or the individuals that can imagine an idea so great that the average individual would never have the capability of doing?