human creativity is "the greatest resource on the planet" . . .

[OneBlueSky]

more from "Manifesto for a Global Civilization," discussed here . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1693719&mesg_id=1693719

"In the future global civilization, the power of creativity will be valued as the greatest resource on the planet. However much we will cherish copper and oil and coal and soil and water and air and minerals, the greatest resource on the planet will be the human beings’ well of creative power. Just as today entire nations are governed and guided by concerns for oil, so too in the future the entire civilization will be structured and guided by the valuing, developing, cherishing and deepening of human creativity. Whereas today we devote enormous human energy to extracting the coal and oil from the Earth, in the future we will devote even more energy for extracting – evoking, nurturing, exciting, channeling, transforming – the creative energy of the human person."

(snip)

"In our nurturing of the creativity of the human person, we will reverence all the creations of the human spirit throughout the globe and throughout history. In our work to create a global civilization, we will be guided by the humility of understanding that no one context can contain the fullness of the truth – that no system of thought or language (or religion, I might add . . .OBS) is capable of encompassing all the beauty and all the truth and all the goodness of the divine possibilities.

"And in this respect, Americans have a special responsibility in the creation of the global civilization itself. For in America there are diverse strands from the powerful human creations of our history; there are the scientific and artistic worlds that strongly extend and deepen the intuitions of the Greek axial civilization; there is the spectrum of religions, and the deep religious fervor and passion that we have been given by the great axial Hebrew civilization. There is the unique geographic situation where America touches the edge of both East and West. And even more, there is the great untouched resource of our continent’s spiritual treasures – the form of life and being that is the Native American’s. The North American continent is a most powerful locus of the creative power needed for re-creating the world."

[Leprechan29]

1. I'm not usually the type to say this:

But to quote millions of others, "Amen"

[OneBlueSky]

2. kick . . . n/t

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[BeFree]

3. On the other hand

One must ask what we Americans have produced with all this enlightenment. Pollution, environmental degradation, the Bomb.

Einstein is sad to have felt "All in all, I'd have rather been a plumber".

The question needing an answer is: What will we do with the human possibilities? Our leadership at the present time bodes ill for our future.

[Jade Fox]

4. When Conservatives are in power creativity comes to a stand-still...

because they have none.

When Kerry is elected we must work to again empower and value
those with creative solutions to problems.