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%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.
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