[lit-ideas] conservatives driving out creatives?
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:05:10 -0400
Andreas has already posted about this. I thought something was wrong
when they opened a K-mart in the East Village. Maybe it was just the
beginning of what William Gaddis called "the rush for second place." -EY
complete story at:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0510/p17s01-bogn.html
Hitch your wagon to Estonia?
America's magnet for creativity faces far-flung places on the rise
By Clayton Collins
Bright lights gravitate toward constellations of creativity. So where
better than America - big-bang engine of modern invention - to launch
one's shining self into the firmament? Somebody say Estonia?
In a kind of literary franchise extension, sociologist Richard Florida
builds on his 2002 "Rise of the Creative Class" with his ominous new
book, "The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for
Talent."
These days, the world's rank-and-file creative workers can find plenty
of nurturing environments in which conditions equal or trump America's
legendary offerings, Florida maintains. He calls the impending shift -
not so much a mass migration as the cultivation of indigenous talent
pools that attract a trickle of like minds - the greatest current threat
to America's global competitiveness. It is a bigger worry than China
(and, presumably, than the outsourcing of low-wage jobs).
He also tries gamely - if generally - to float solutions to this drain.
The book's real value may be as an identifier of how the world will come
to look unless America wakes up to new realities.
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