Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,
Season 5, Ep, 4, "Nor The Battle
of The Strong." Starfleet Cmdr.
Benjamin Sisco (who is in charge
of the space-station known as
"DS9") talking to his son, Jake,
who wants to be a writer when
he grows up.
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank, German Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage (June 12, 1929, to February or March 1945 while in a Nazi concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany)
(I don't own this quote whatsoever and I chose this quote because it is the 75th anniversary in 1947 her diary is published.)
Was just thinking, when someone says think outside the box....why does it have to be a box? Why can't it be anything you want? Like a closet? Or a door? Hehe
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
It's because it hinges on the idea that everyone wants to be ordinary (aka "normal") and that being anything other should be punishable socially. It stems from imperial modes of thinking that harm people not white-cis-straight-abled-perisex-etc because the idea of normal is centred on "some guy"-isms
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
Unrelated question....are political questions allowed? Also really confused why people keep calling the U.S. a democracy when we are supposed to be a Republic....