Abstract
Chapters in the Conclusions Suite overview the evolving argument of the book, represented in the previous ‘Movements’ of the argument’s Symphonic form. Central to the very concept of the Void is creativity. The core dynamic of the universe is creation of the new, destruction of the old to be replaced by new creation. Chapter 29 brings together the arguments of the book’s Third Movement which builds on the previous Movements to explore creativity. As it argues, emotion is central to creation, immediately taking the reader from spirituality and the cosmos to the inner world of the person. Further on creativity, a central quest of the book is to identify the optimal social and economic system for producing a fabric of a creative economy. This goes way beyond just creative activities such as painting and dance, presented in separate domains and to separate audiences. Instead, a creative fabric implies building creativity into everything from education to urban and organizational design. Even at the center now of institutionalized creative activity, scientific research, ‘openness’ and therefore ‘trust’ work, not closed boundaries. Again, back to the power of emotion and intersubjective understanding—the source of ‘community’ as demonstrated earlier. The same applies in organization design of ‘open systems’. Here lies a fundamental premise of escape from the limiting controls of neo-classical economics, our path to a survivable future.
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We use the term ‘social capital’ here with some degree of caution as it implies looking at people as a production cost factor and our entire approach is to avoid this minimization of their full worth as people. However, ‘social capital’ is a familiar phrase in economics, so we live with the expression for now and trust the reader will appreciate our caution.
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Snow’s 1950s observation of the uncrossable dividing line between Humanities and Natural Science in British Universities applies today with even greater force. Snow, however, identified the problem for the UK at that time, as too heavy a focus on the classics, Greek and Latin, at expense of Natural Science—which, he observed, had been the engine for winning World War II. He wrote originally, as it turned out, at the ‘tipping point’. From there on, the balance reversed as the world of the 1960s became enchanted with science and its power … to even land a man on the moon during a decade where commentators preached the infinite benefits of scientific progress and the only critique of the impact of science on society or our environment was Rachel Carson’s ‘The Silent Spring’ which exposed the impact of pesticide DDT on the environment—even into remote previously pristine animal habitats (Carson 1962, 1964). However, the disciplinary separation remained.
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Hill, S., Yamash’ta, S., Yagi, T. (2018). “The Dynamic of Creativity” (Third Movement). In: Yamash’ta, S., Yagi, T., Hill, S. (eds) The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics. Creative Economy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6478-4_29
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