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Thats true for Asian countries. Do you think that holds true for Western civilization or Silicon Valley?

• cryoshon 10y ago
  SV is just like all other subcultures: a dynamic equilibrium of proper social signalling is necessary to be accepted and avoid ostracization. layer on enough social overhead and independent thought has no cognitive space to dwell. sure, that doesn't explicitly prevent creative people from excelling, but it certainly chokes out or chills a lot of the people in between average and brilliant. stepping out of line is just as dangerous in SV as ever when people are trying to mentally draw invisible lines between what is tepidly "disruptive" and what is genuinely subversive or abnormal. the same could be said of the wider american culture, in which certain segments value signalling of faux "edginess" while still living in terror of actual contradiction of the status quo. what do these things have to do with creativity, you may ask? making new stuff is perceived on some level as an attack on the old stuff-- and that old stuff is held onto with a deathgrip.