Imagination is a danger. Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

. The prophet must speak and act so that the dominant consciousness is contradicted and a new future can be imagined.

Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination.