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I think Florida's flaws are slightly more subtle.

Artistic creativity still has social cachet, because it's chaotic, unpredictable and it can be immensely powerful, personally and socially. But it frightens business types who don't understand it and can't control it.

It's a direct challenge to their own needs for control for omnipotence, and a direct reminder that they're neither. So they have a very strong interest in taming it and neutering it.

The ideal way to do this is to pretend that it doesn't exist. Redefine managers and parasites as the new creatives, and the problem is solved.

The managers and parasites get yet another ego stroke - which is all they're really in it for - and the subversive chaos associated with real creativity is sidelined into irrelevance.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jan 20th, 2011 at 08:49:11 AM EST
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