What is creativity?

Roger Hicks said:
Rob,

But surely trying to second-guess the judgement of history is like trying to second-guess fashion. Consider Alma-Tadema: Victorian superstar, obliterated by the 1960s, now coming back.

Cheers,

Roger


Does that mean white belts, puffy sleeves and bell bottoms may be coming back? I'm sorry, but I refuse to get back on that band wagon. Our children asked us to burn all the photos taken of them during the '70s.🙂
 
Dear Rob,

The black diamond is the nicest thing anyone's said for a while.

I agree completely about Twain. I once had an editor change something I wrote:

"The Chinese treated the Tibetans like ni**ers"

(I assume the asterisk is necessary to defeat censorship software)

It's offensive, he said. Yes, I said, that's the point. I'm trying to convey a really offensive concept.

It wouldn't have been so bad except that he changed it to "The Chinese treated the Tiberans like natives."

Well, yes, given that we're talking about Tibetans in Tibet, they WERE natives -- be he was devaluing the word 'native' to the same level as a grievous racial epithet.

Cheers,

Roger
 
I'm convinced that the styles of the '70s will probably return (be afraid, be very afraid) because if history teaches us anything it's that we keep making the same stupid mistakes!

Arfon (looks like a prat in flares - just like the rest of you LOL)
 
Regarding creativity:


Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.


And speaking of the '70's (and 50's and 60's)...

The only credited source I could find for this masterpiece is...get this...Jackie Gleason.

Yes, *that* Jackie Gleason.

Creativity. Like the story of the well - that's a deep subject.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
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