Interesting
This is a take I had not heard:
There is no need to yell and scream. No need to be strident and shrill. What is needed is that conservatives learn their proper role. Now by conservative, I mean people who are not creative, but who are, in the main, reactionary.In America, it has long been the case that the creative class tended toward liberality, since that is, in large part, what enables them to be creative. Creativity is a generative and generous act. But many of those who are not creative make the mistake of becoming, or being, reactive, as if reactivity balanced creativity. But this is not the proper order. The proper thing for the non-creatives to do is to be receptive, not reactive. Creativity is the yang, receptivity is the yin. All of life is infused with both characteristics. No one is completely one way or the other. There are simply aptitudes and orientations. America is prevented from evolving naturally by this miscalculation. Instead of great ideas being nurtured and developed by those who would be receptive, instead they are reacted against, shot down, and the balloon bursts…if it is ever given wind in the first place.
