Healthy Creativity.
Dear Reader,
It
is my pleasure,
and my honor, as an officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.]
Office of Public Liaison, and
as a voting member of F.E.D.,
to share, with
you, from
time to time, as
they
are approved
for public release by
the F.E.D.
General Council, key
excerpts
from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder,
Karl Seldon.
This latest release is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of
the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the
direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].
In this text, Seldon describes the nature of healthy human creativity, in his view, and the ways in which that kind of creativity is thwarted
by the prevailing,
capital-relation-compromised human phenome.
Seldon --
“Our contemporary society harnesses human creativity
for expanded surplus-value production -- for profit; for monetary reward.”
“That form of society pushes
for profit, status, fame, and power to become the sole motives for human
creativity.”
“But these motives are not
healthy motives for human creativity.
Such motives tend to overwhelm the ‘‘‘for-itself’’’, for universal
benefit, use-value and gift-value motives for creativity that have deep
historical roots in the human genome, as well as in ‘the human phenome’,
imposing, in their place, taints of an ulterior and mercenary
character.”
“Such motives lead to an
unhealthy creativity, and even to an other-destructive and self-destructive way
of life.”
“Thus, healthy creativity is
itself a creative discovery on the part of a creative individual in our
society.”
“The way of life of healthy
creativity is a trans-cultural discovery with respect to our contemporary,
capitalist culture. It is a discovery
beyond what our present culture inculcates in us. It represents growth into transcendence of
the presently prevailing ‘human phenome’, ‘the human phenome’ as adapted to the
capital-value-relation as predominant social relation of social reproduction.”
For more
information regarding these
Seldonian insights, please see --
For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:
¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Participant, F.E.D.
Special Council for Public Liaison,
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison.
