{"id":1579,"date":"2013-12-06T20:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2013-12-06T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:30:28","slug":"creativity-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can we promote creativity itself? Maybe that\u2019s like creating electricity without having devices to run. I suspect this is a theme to explore and develop. Really, what it involves is playing with stuff, people, the world, your mind, attitudes, whatever.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you just do that?\u201d Sure, why not. I\u2019ve become impressed with a dismal reality: People think being serious is virtuous. I don\u2019t object to being serious. Often I indulge in this as it seems fitting. But it never occurs to me to feel more \u201cme\u201d that way. The following cartoon expresses my concern: The caption: He\u2019s saying to the fairy, \u201cSee my attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"seemyattorney\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What strikes me is that it\u2019s funny, but yet again, I am concerned that this is a form of unconscious slavery, oppression, the opposite of empower-ment to play creatively. If you get too serious and \u201cbusiness-like\u201d and stay that way long enough so that you can\u2019t \u201ccome off it\u201d because you have no idea what that\u2019s like, well, that\u2019s a pity, really. I suspect that this sort of condition, a form of malnourishment of the soul, a deficiency of Vitamin P (for play), is really quite widespread.<\/p>\n

Play is so tarnished with childishness that it may take a campaign to re-educate folks, to redeem this wonderful process. I\u2019m re-writing my book on the Art of Play to do that. Suggestions are welcome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can we promote creativity itself? Maybe that\u2019s like creating electricity without having devices to run. I suspect this is a theme to explore and develop. Really, what it involves is playing with stuff, people, the world, your mind, attitudes, whatever. \u201cCan you just do that?\u201d Sure, why not. I\u2019ve become impressed with a dismal reality: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,14,25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-foolin","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}