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%CONTEXTUAL INHIBITION OF INITIATIVES 800115
Human contexts either promote or inhibit initiatives
of both technical and personal natures. In some cultural
contexts, initiatives are perceived as presumptuous and
arrogant; roles are rigidly defined by tradition, birth
election, appointment, and cultural forces. In other
cultural contexts initiatives are expected and welcomed.
Personal creativity is rare in repressive and prescriptive
contexts---and so the status quo persists. Personally
creativity is common in open and affective contexts---and
so growth occurs. The static stability is less demanding
and meaningful---than is the dynamic stability of a
growing culture. The growing community must deal with
ever changing problems. The static community "knows" what
all the "problems" are and what all the "correct"
solutions to them are without attending to environmental
changes.
Initiatives may be technical or personal in nature.
Technical initiatives and developments are more easily
perceived by some people than are personal initiatives;
and vice versa. Personal initiatives pertain to the
development of novel new kinds of personal relationships.
Technical initiatives pertain to the development of novel
new kinds of technical relationships. Some cultures
repress one kind of initiative---and encourage the other
kind; others do the reverse. Each culture has a tolerance
level for the degree of departure from the traditional,
and initiatives which exceed that tolerance level tend to
be inhibited. Some cultures are highly tolerant and
promote growth, other cultures are highly intolerant and
inhibit growth. Some are balanced as to the kinds of
initiatives which are tolerated, others are unbalanced;
tolerating one kind of growth in preference to another
kind of growth.
Some cultural contexts fabricate opportunities for
initiatives and insert persons into well defined initiator
roles. Initiatives are permitted within well defined
roles, and are punished outside the well defined roles.
Roles are not fully defined, but are partially defined.
One way to stifle creative people is to fit them into
roles which appear to provide opportunities for
initiatives, but which really repress the feared kinds of
initiatives which the creative people are capable of. Such
roles may bring them reward and recognition which obscures
the repression which has occurred.
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