“Ignorance is bliss”, “Back in my day, life was so much simpler”, “what I wouldn’t give to be a kid again”, these are the thoughts of many people in today’s society.  As we grow and evolve into higher level thinkers, we start to understand many of the things that we didn’t understand in our earlier parts of our civilization.  We now understand that we are not the center of the universe, the earth is not flat, that the weather is not controlled by a god, and that we can control, replicate and manipulate our surrounding environment using science and mathematics.  Science and math has eliminated the need for explanations that were normally given to a mystic power like god, or an artificial intelligence like aliens.  While science and math have brought us many new discoveries, medicine, and so much more, it has also eliminated our need to explain things through our imagination (i.e. god, magic, etc.).  By utilizing the theories of evolution, I think that we will adapt to this new found knowledge base, and it will bring about evolutionary changes in the way in which our brain develops and thinks.  We will become smarter and more advanced with regards to math and science, and many positive things will result from this change (medicine, space and time travel, etc.).  But, I also think that there will be a downside to this evolutionary change, and that will be the elimination of our imagination.  Our imagination plays a very vital role in art, writing, music and other creative fields.  However, these fields will become more and more systematic, commercial and planned, where the process begins to sound like a mathematical formula.  And art will become a field where most artists will create what the masses will like (because it’s systematically planned that way by artists and producers).  We are already seeing this change in pop music, movies and tv shows.  “All the songs sound the same” but every one consumes them as if they are original and new.  Additionally, I entitled, this post, “twinkle, twinkle little star”, as a reference to one of the most known and loved nursery songs of all time.  The presupposition of the song is that stars twinkle, when they do not.  Stars actually appear to twinkle due to an event called, astronomical seeing – the twinkling of astronomical objects (i.e. stars) caused by turbulent mixing in the Earth’s atmosphere varying the optical refractive index.  Wow, that doesn’t sound very fun anymore, and quite frankly it’s not.  But, I know deep down, that all of us want to have fun, and we don’t want to always think about the scientific nature of everything.  Rather, many of us have this yearning for a simpler life, where magic and gods rule and imagination prevails.