creativity...
I can't remember where I read this, but a photo Mic*helle sent reminded me of this.
What is the colour of the sky?
If your first reaction is to say blue, then I must say that you have been curbed. You have been told to colour within the the lines so often that your reflex response is so tuned to the right response that you cannot fathom the sky being any other colour.
BUT, I can tell you that the sky can be made up of a multitude of colour. It's not just blue in the day and dark blue at night. It can also be a violet hue in the dawn, searing blue in the noon, orange-red in the dusk, and black at night.
What is the point of all this? I think MO said it best when he made a comment about how the system tends toward promoting the right answers rather than the exposure to the multitude of possibilities that are out there. Is the right answer always the best answer? In fact, is the right answer even important? Sure it is, but only to an extent. How far does this extent extend? That's a personal choice.
Do we only want people who would only tell you the sky is blue? Or do we need people who can see the possibilities that others cannot?
What is the colour of the sky?
If your first reaction is to say blue, then I must say that you have been curbed. You have been told to colour within the the lines so often that your reflex response is so tuned to the right response that you cannot fathom the sky being any other colour.
BUT, I can tell you that the sky can be made up of a multitude of colour. It's not just blue in the day and dark blue at night. It can also be a violet hue in the dawn, searing blue in the noon, orange-red in the dusk, and black at night.
What is the point of all this? I think MO said it best when he made a comment about how the system tends toward promoting the right answers rather than the exposure to the multitude of possibilities that are out there. Is the right answer always the best answer? In fact, is the right answer even important? Sure it is, but only to an extent. How far does this extent extend? That's a personal choice.
Do we only want people who would only tell you the sky is blue? Or do we need people who can see the possibilities that others cannot?
posted by alvin_c at 12:45 pm
2 Comments:
The Right answer, is most of the time the Popular answer, and then after some time, becomes the Only answer.
And then culture catches up and comes up with romantic notions of Blue Skies in songs, poetry, yadda yadda.
To provide for that multiple answers will be to destabilize this system that people enjoy. So the question is - build solidarity with people or to do what's really right?
so what's the answer to that in the 10-year series ar?
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