From Planetaria Obscura - July 2016
The Land of Make Believe
Make Believe - the action of pretending or imagining, typically that things are better than they really are. Like "she's living in a world of make-believe"
BETTER than they really are, that hadn’t occurred to me. I didn’t quite buy that, but it was thought provoking. Would my planetarium have an undercurrent of ‘well the real sky today sucks, so I’ve got the REAL way it should look - used to look’ That might be an easy trap to fall into, as my goal of course was to impart WONDER first and teach a little second. Well not exactly a trap, if my goal was to educate about light pollution. Its not so easy then, constructing and operating a land of make believe maybe. Besides, the whole name is a bit misleading. We can’t really MAKE anyone believe anything can we. We can try to convince them, show them what we believe.
The rest is up to them.
The Land of Make Believe
Make Believe - the action of pretending or imagining, typically that things are better than they really are. Like "she's living in a world of make-believe"
BETTER than they really are, that hadn’t occurred to me. I didn’t quite buy that, but it was thought provoking. Would my planetarium have an undercurrent of ‘well the real sky today sucks, so I’ve got the REAL way it should look - used to look’ That might be an easy trap to fall into, as my goal of course was to impart WONDER first and teach a little second. Well not exactly a trap, if my goal was to educate about light pollution. Its not so easy then, constructing and operating a land of make believe maybe. Besides, the whole name is a bit misleading. We can’t really MAKE anyone believe anything can we. We can try to convince them, show them what we believe.
The rest is up to them.
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