[adzm]

Personally I feel that creativity is something like saturating a solution with ideas until you get that one seed crystal and then everything just comes together. If it wasn't already full of thoughts and ideas already, that seed would simply dissolve.

[mads]

Which is also why creativity suffers in totalitarian regimes like China. One or two of those ideas are bound to step on the toes of the establishment, but they need to be explored as part of the process.

[indigochill]

Totalitarian governments are just one flavor of repression of creativity. Every culture has its unutterable heresies. In totalitarian societies it's the government that enforces this. In free societies it's the people themselves.

[shi314]

In totalitarian regimes, creativity have a complete different side. Just take Russian Authors like fyodor dostoevsky.

Creativity is not only in literature but also in other areas such as business models, Chinese Startups have most innovative business models.

[nsomaru]

Perhaps in that spirit this will interest you:

http://www.ramatirtha.org/vol1/inspiration.htm

[autokad]

this was part of my concern over the current dislike of tech's mantra "move fast and break things".

the mistake was tech thought it was somehow righteously above all others, so its good that people are finally saying 'no, you are you are jerks', but I think we are all jerks and we should accept that and move on. Furthermore, we should accept that making mistakes is a necessary byproduct of innovation. I think these concepts are tied together, I am just doing a bad job at communicating it.