Two things about this strike me as very strange: - putting creativity and constraints in opposition, rather than seeing constraints at the heart of creativity.

Two things about this strike me as very strange: - putting creativity and constraints in opposition, rather than seeing constraints at the heart of creativity. This is the ultimate justification for doing nothing, it says "I can't be creative, the authorities don't allow it!" Why not just simply take the risk, break the rule and do a U-turn? Oh, you might get in trouble? Sorry, but that's the nature of taking risks. Wishing for risk-free risks is a deeply conservative move. - misunderstanding the nature of authority. Here, the authority is overt, it's clear that they are giving orders. A much more interesting authority is the hidden one which structures what you perceive as freedom vs. constraint. Continuing the metaphor, the opposition is between being able to make a u-turn vs. u-turns being forbidden, but the real anti-authoritarian question is who built the road and where is it going, regardless of which direction you drive?