The culprit? Indifference. The emergence of a "whatever" society.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:14 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis Creativity crisis? How about feral citizens and media that writes on a third to fifth grade level? Citizens that don't even know how to repeat a movement in their body much less understand the meaning of any patterns other than visual numbers. Did any of you notice the paragraphs in that Chinese writer's article that Gurstein posted? It reminded me of a stage work on paragraphs that Edgar Grana wrote where the entire work was built around the rules for paragraphs. Try finding a paragraph like that in the NYTimes or the NYReview of Books. Only in occasional scholarly works is there such writing. The average reader has ADD and can't think their way through correct paragraph writing. Often the NYTimes makes a sentence a paragraph. Hell so do I. :>)) And the Globe Mail and the London Times (although the Brits and the NYReview writes long articles, the paragraphs are still often just sentence thoughts) and the Economist and Scientific American, and..and...and. The LA Times is said to be a third grade level for grammar and it's intentional. It was this way long before there was a Creativity Crisis. Check out Richard Florida, he sometimes gets it right about the environment of creativity. Is there a creativity crisis before that caused these things or did capitalism create the environment by downgrading the mean until it created a feral readership. There used to be literature and the pulp media. Now literature and the pulp media are the same. The culprit? He's dead. So you can't ask him. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:50 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michel Bauwens Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:03 PM To: Peer-To-Peer Research List Cc: [email protected] Subject: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
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