Pegasus: Dee Hock Keynote LO10859

Ben Compton (bcompton@geocities.com)
Tue, 05 Nov 1996 08:16:23 -0700

Replying to LO10850 --

Michael McMaster wrote:

> The statement that "institutions restrict human creativity" misses a
> point of deep significance. The following question may reveal it:
>
> What do you or I know of human creativity WITHOUT THE EXISTENCE of
> institutions?
>
> What we take for granted, the foundation and beginnings of our
> ability to be creative - even just plain effective, are the cultural.
> social, economic, education, religious, etc institutions that we are
> born into.

Perhaps, Mike, what we should say is what do we know about human
creativity without the existence of communities. The question, then,
becomes, do we need institutions to have communities? If so, what type of
institutions? What role would those institutions play? A governing role?
How should those institutions interact with the community in a productive
way? How could they avoid stiffling creativity?

Certainly human creativity cannot be fully observed without significant
and large scale interaction between people. I think Kevin Kelly really
made this point clear in his book "Out of Control." Specifically, his
section entitled "More is more than more, it's different."

http://www.absolutvodka.com/ch2-e.html

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