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This-essay is a8412241.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %EVALUATION OF FANTASY VISIONS CREATIVITY 841224 Creativity involves giving attention to fantasy and visions which take the creative person beyond the thought and emotional patterns which are traditional and conventional. Creativity involves bringing together in coherent new ways: ideals, ideas, values, images, relationships, words, and people. Many people are threatened by that which departs from the traditional and conventional. They tend to support taboos and collusions which inhibit creativity. They lack a coherent basis in terms of which to evaluate the integrative possibilities of the fruits of creative people's fantasies, visions, and unconventional ways of bringing together in coherent new ways elements which are familiar. Lacking such a coherent basis, through fear they inhibit creativity---lest they be threatened by that which is radically new and beyond conventional notions of propriety. The evaluation of creativity involves open and honest dialogue about fantasy, visions, dreams, and imagination which depart from the conventional. Creativity involves experimentation and assessment within a community which is supportive of people who are willing to take risks in trying new ways. Creativity thrives within fail-safe contexts, it dies within contexts which punish failure--- either explicitly or implicitly. Creativity thrives within communities which actively defend the full range of communication rights; it dies within contexts which punish unconventional forms or contents of communication, just because they are unconventional. Creativity which is worthy of long-range respect promotes individual and communal integrity. Conventional communities obscure such creativity by rejecting unconventional ideas and behaviors as threats to the integrity of the conventional community. The conception of integrity which dominates a conventional community is a very shallow conception which does violence to the integrity of creative members of the community. People can not be open and honest in such a community. Conventionality is but a mask of integrity which covers disintegration. Creative members of a conventional community have visions and fantastic dreams of what it might be like to be members of a community with true personal and communal integrity. They are perceived as threats to the integrity of their own conventional community and will suffer as all true prophets do. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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