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   %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)  
                                                                                                                               
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