The world is filled with two broad types of people: the ones that care and the ones that don’t. Makers and Dreamers make up the ones that care. Makers, as the name suggests, are the people that build things with their hands. Often, though not always, makers make things that dreamers dream up. The dreamers are always optimistic. They are sure that somehow, by some transcendental intervention, their beautiful dream will see the light of the day. Not only that, it will be well received and adored by all that come across it. The Makers, on the other hand, are pessimistic, almost cynical. However, they try their best to at least create a horse where the dreamers saw a unicorn.
It is fascinating to watch the interactions between these two types. One cannot succeed without the other, but each sees the other as something to be endured instead of a necessary part of the ecosystem. Wonderful things can happen however, when the dreamers understand the makers and vice versa. If the dreamers acknowledge the world for what it is, warts and all, they can, by their sheer positivity motivate the makers to outdo themselves. When the makers, on their part, buy into these seemingly wild flights of fancy, they can build things of a subliminal beauty that wows the onlooker.
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I agree in general. However, it is my general belief that ultimately, makers are dreams and dreamers are makers, and that dreamers should aspire to make, and makers should aspire to dream.
I agree that the two types can't work without each other, but there should be no assumption that its reasonable for those two types to not coexist within the same person. It seems to me that a maker who doesn't dream, has in a way simply given up on trying to dream, and a dreamer who doesn't make, has in a way, given up on trying to make.
To suggest that its fine for makers to exist that don't exercise their ability to dream, is to suggest that they can just do as their told, and that they can serve the interest of the dreamers, and that some people are just like that. In my eyes, if there is a maker who doesn't dream, its probably because they don't think they can, or they have been told that they can't, and have given up or have been led to thusly believe they can't.
Likewise (possibly as someone who is more often than not fulfilled the "maker" role, while wanting to also dream), I abhor the concept of the "ideas" man or woman, as to suggest that this person is the "vision" and has some innate ability to know what is right and next and who deserves respect for their role and who requires his/her minions (the makers) to do his.her biding. To me, a dreamer who doesn't care to, or who won't dirty his/her hands with making is simply... well... dreaming, which in and of itself is fine, just not very useful. Understanding the bounds of what is and what's possible facilitates dreaming by creating a context of reality for the dream. A dream without that context is just a... well... dream. A dream with that context, is a thing that is worth dreaming because its grounded in reality.
So yes, I appreciate the concept of the mindsets of dreaming and making, but I think a better, and also more accurate, observation about dreamers and makers, is that they should understand each other, by in a sense, being each other. Have makers dream, and dreamers make because, 1) Everyone is a dreamer and maker, 2) by flexing all of those brain muscles, you have more brain muscles being flexed, 3) Makers will better understand dreaming and dreamers will better understand making, and 4) everyone will have an understanding of each other because they will understand each other by understanding themselves.
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