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variably, and more productively than non-creative minds the outcomes of

the Ariely study could easily have been predicted without the study having

been made.

This, in turn, raised the question as to why then was the study made? Was it

intended only as a form of a common-place replication or was it, after all, an

excuse to discredit the behavior of creative thinkers and to encourage a form

of back-lash to inhibit projected changes in the status quo? If the latter it

might explain why it appears that the anti-creative forces, in the guise of

“creativity experts” such as Mark Runko, of the Torrance Center at the

University of Georgia, urge that the creative mind be trained in discretionand why Amabile, of Harvard University School of Business urges the

acceptance of “cooperation” as a virtue in creative production when she

should know that the nature of the truly creative mind is to work alone, and

certainly, and additionally, that “cooperation” implies negotiation,

compromise and acquiescence to the ideas of others...all of which would

diminish the probable creativity of the product. To say nothing of this making

“common” whatever achievement there might be. to say nothing about the

recommendation that one be polite, that is, “discrete”, cooperative and, if

you really want to be a member of the group, it is O.K. to cheat in order to

achieve your aims. In other word, lie, dissemble and kick the other guy while

he’s down for success is success is success....isn’t it?..and that is the final

measure!

Well if ballet dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Godunov, andNatalia Marakova under the Soviet regime can dance their way to

excellence a few creative minds might be able to identify escape passages

from this current effort at repression.,, ? What valuable consciousness this

present situation does bring to the fore is what appears to be a fundamental

difference between the creative mind which pays attention to its own

business and thus is probably apolitical, and the non-creative mind which

pays attention to everyone else’s business and is VERY political.



It used to be that such mass-mind shifting propaganda was reserved for the

rather mindless ingestion of those who bought the publications of yellow-

sheeted journalism But Ms. Melina cannot be considered “at fault” because

she writes what she is told to write and is paid to write, but who, if any, have

called the readers’ attention to the fact that creative thinkers can play games

as well as non-creative thinkers and can, when called upon, shift their

imagination gears to fit the circumstances.

It should, in all honesty, be additionally noted that playing games is not the

area in which creative thinking has generally been analyzed, but the effort

here, by these researchers, seems to be to discredit the moral structure of

creative thinkers whereas my research (THE PERCEPTIVE AND SILENCED

MINORITIES, 1970) indicates quite the opposite that the creative thinker,

when involved does not lie, misdirect, or accept false evidence but he and his

efforts get put down, down-graded and ostracised all because his perception

differ from those of the consensus.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1026587/THE-PERCEPTIVE-AND-SILENCED-MINORITIES




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