In this wide ranging conversation with Making Sense of Madness host Sara Haboubi we explore concepts relating to Human Creativity, Perception, Propaganda and the systematic blurring between Fact and Fiction which increasingly defines how current world events are presented. To what extent is our society 'cognitively castrated' by the rigidity of our educational system. Has creativity effectively been 'educated out of us'?
You are one of the best on Substack, apparently realizing that keeping silent would make us accomplices and serving evil would accomplish nothing, but us dying a bit later.
I'm looking forward to hearing this! An ice-age ago, I was getting my doctorate in the psychology of creativity. I never wrote my dissertation because I'd determined that the question was more important than the answer--if you got the question right, the answer was self-evident. And I didn't yet know the right question. So I'm already in agreement with Sara and can't wait to dive in deeper.
And my book is winging its way to you and should be there in 10 days. Thanks for the lovely compliment on your call with Colin that I'm "a sovereign thinker." I've joked that sovereignty is my middle name, since it's the common thread to the vastly different topics I cover, so you're speaking to my heart. Thank you!
How wonderful to hear people talking about these things again. When Matt refers to "a mind inflamed by a paradox" I smiled. In the seventies, the author John Gardner wrote a book called "On Moral Fiction" that addresses this dichotomy in the literary world. Check it out.
You are one of the best on Substack, apparently realizing that keeping silent would make us accomplices and serving evil would accomplish nothing, but us dying a bit later.
Let me add my two pennies:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-can-be-done?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F42034032-ray-horvath-the-source-&utm_medium=reader2&s=w
I'm looking forward to hearing this! An ice-age ago, I was getting my doctorate in the psychology of creativity. I never wrote my dissertation because I'd determined that the question was more important than the answer--if you got the question right, the answer was self-evident. And I didn't yet know the right question. So I'm already in agreement with Sara and can't wait to dive in deeper.
And my book is winging its way to you and should be there in 10 days. Thanks for the lovely compliment on your call with Colin that I'm "a sovereign thinker." I've joked that sovereignty is my middle name, since it's the common thread to the vastly different topics I cover, so you're speaking to my heart. Thank you!
How wonderful to hear people talking about these things again. When Matt refers to "a mind inflamed by a paradox" I smiled. In the seventies, the author John Gardner wrote a book called "On Moral Fiction" that addresses this dichotomy in the literary world. Check it out.