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Creativity: A Crime Of Passion
Creativity seems to be the “buzz word” of the 2000s. Society values it, companies need it, and employers want it. Or do they?
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Posted by CygnusX1 on 12/17 at 05:01 PM
An interesting article and there is much truth regarding your views of rebels and creativity.
Although I do not feel it is as quite as bad as you portray, it certainly is true to say that bosses and teachers both frown upon unruly and over creative individuals who may question and oppose the norm, despite their rhetoric to the contrary. Yet imagine if we were all very creative, would the classroom be reduced to anarchy and chaos? I guess it may be true that teachers would tolerate a minority of creative disruption but not the majority.
Your points indicate that this "stifling" of the creative individual does indeed lie in education and schools, and thus shows the importance and the reliance upon experienced teachers to support these creative individuals rather than to oppress and discourage them. In fact, it may depend upon the earliest education and classrooms to support these character types, as oppressing a very young talented child may dissuade them, and this may be misunderstood that being over creative or over enthusiastic is wrong. And if these responses to creativity continue it may even drive an otherwise talented child into shyness and introversion?
Creativity and creative individuals come in many forms, including yet not exclusive to entrepreneurs, defence lawyers, organised criminals, psychopaths, sociopaths and terrorists. And it is precisely these latter types of creative individual who are deemed to pose a real existential risk, combined with the freedoms that our contemporary societies tolerate.
"In his talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu.."
Here is an excellent presentation that contemplates these types of freedoms and creativity and maybe also the need to suppress them with reduction of freedoms, surveillance and even drugs, (specifically highlighted by the Q&A at the end).
> http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/savulescu20091116/
Whilst some of our most important positions in society are really governed with the conservative stick that opposes change, or at least swift or radical change. These often include political institutions and protocols, financial institutions, and even the scientific hierarchies and medicine stand sometimes steadfast in the way of new ideas and creativity.
Radical change in political systems, or at least the way these systems view radical ideas, may be just what we need to change world opinion and make some real beneficial changes to the world and even promote a healthy understanding of existential risks like climate change. However beware the creative lunatic with the bio-weapon that may also be in a position to change world opinion. (Reminds me of that movie "twelve monkeys").
Posted by SEC on 12/17 at 09:42 PM
There is something to be said for creativity within a given set of rules. The key lies in understanding that rules are like swiss cheese; they are square but with a lot of empty holes in them. You don't have to break rules. You just need to find solutions where no rules are defined.
Posted by Vinayagamoorthy on 12/18 at 02:19 AM
I would agree upon most of the ideas in this article. Also, I think creative ideas do not pour in everyday. One cannot predict when he/she will get a new idea. That will not liked by people who like to manage things in a predictable way. So, I guess, society will not change. Also it will resist new changes and paradigms, because it disrupts everyday functioning.
It can even be taken that it is a curse on creative people to face the firestorm of resistance. But, I guess, that is how creative people work.
Posted by Martin on 08/12 at 04:38 PM
Interesting article which probably hints at why so many people are opting out of the Corporate "unconditional conformity" for a life of self employment in which they can apply creativity without question.
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