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I think creativity is closely related to critical thinking or more specifically the courage to think for yourself. Often this puts you at a disadvantage becaus
by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think creativity is closely related to critical thinking or more specifically the courage to think for yourself.
Often this puts you at a disadvantage because it's so much easier to consume and regurgitate estaished knowledge. However only doing this means you have less practice thinking for yourself than those who were stubborn enough to resist and so at the cutting edge cannot contribute much.
It's not just lack of practice though. It's more lack of courage because you are used to being right and smart.
- wefj82321a 9y agoYou might be interested in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is essentially a framework that relies on the simple idea you posted. No individual must be forced to acquiesce to supposed "needs" of their culture. Think for yourself. Know that you are right in your own thoughts, but that others are right in theirs. THOUGHTS being key; he was no moral relativist. The utilitarian needs of humanity, aka what society should be about, must be openly debated and decided by inclusive dialectic. He uses his homeland of Brazil to describe how European forms of government were "imported" and forced on the will of the public. I'll argue until the end traditional values haven't gone anywhere. We still expect social conformity, it's just not towards the Bible. Get a job, start a business, and only do what's profitable. The very opposite of being free.