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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8805151.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %COMMUNAL AFFIRMATION OF CREATIVE NON-CONFORMITY 880515 Communities tend to affirm creativity only within the bound of the dominant paradigms which do not challenge the collusions of the communities. Creative young people take note of which kinds of creativity are affirmed, and which kinds of creativity generate communal discomfort; and take the hint that communal acceptance is not to be enjoyed by being creative in ways which lead to communal discomfort. Creative young people who insist on doing things which generate communal discomfort often are alienated from the mainstream of the community, and so become unable to contribute creatively to the integrity of the community. They tend to disintegrate personally, because personal and communal integrity are interdependent. Communities which alienate their most creative young people suffer the consequences of the disintegration of the communities' prime personal resources who would otherwise be available for dealing with communal dilemmas through new ways of perceiving situations. To survive, a community needs to have ways to integrate the non-conformal creativity of its young people into the communal life. Each community needs to offer its young people creative ways of challenging the dominant paradigms of the community, and have ways to affirm such challenges to the dominant paradigms. In the absence of such communal affirmations of creative challenges, the community will alienate its creative young people and disintegrate in ways which will become less and less perceptible as the disintegration progresses. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================