I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child he would grow up to be an eggplant.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology then its myth is...
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
In man - in the history of mankind this has happened many times and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end the people's will is what achieves victory.