[lit-ideas] Creative America Project

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:40:42 EDT
For a few months, America's "creative workers" were tasked with generating 
al-Qaeda attack scenarios, before those scenario lists shifted completely to 
Hollywood. Now it's a call to developing foreign policy. Perhaps they're not 
thinking that through. If we all put down our poems and stories and canvases 
and 
cameras and sheet music to help with foreign policy, the result might not be 
more creative public policy, but  more gainfully employed former creative 
workers. -Eric

PS: The Center for Cultural Policy site recently ran an article declaring 
that the Scandinavian countries (considered as a group) had surpassed the US as 
"most creative nation," largely because those countries don't have as many laws 
and restrictions and police and taboos and crackdowns, which are said to 
drain the creative life out of a nation. Great! The one thing the US had going 
for 
it and now we've let that slip. Where are time machines when you need them?
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From http://www.culturalcommons.org/announcedetail.cfm?ID=130

Chicago Sun-Times highlights the Creative America Project
submitted by Creative America
Details"What was it, exactly, that was so disturbing about those 9/11 
commission hearings this week?" asks Debra Pickett of the Chicago Sun-Times. 
"It was 
the complete absence of creative, original thought." Pickett's article 
highlights the Creative America Project, which seeks to mobilize the "creative 
class" 
not only as an economic force but as a political one. Project organizer Tom 
Tresser wants them to vote -- and run for office. Says Tresser, "Artists and 
creative professionals are nontraditional thinkers. They're problem solvers. 
And 
those are skills we need in the public space. We need those minds applied to 
public policy." 

Read the full article, reprinted on the Creative America site at 
http://www.tresser.com/creative_america.htm. 

For more infohttp://www.creativeamerica.us


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