Comments on: react, follow, or replicate https://rickroderick.org/psychoanalysis-in-reverse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=psychoanalysis-in-reverse Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.6 By: Charles Bivona https://rickroderick.org/psychoanalysis-in-reverse/#comment-11 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:01:29 +0000 http://rickroderick.org/?p=18#comment-11 I want to say that nature is alive in the creative artist, but creativity has become a hot commodity. The creative class, according to Richard Florida, “accounts for nearly half all wage and salary income in the United States, $1.7 trillion dollars, as much as the manufacturing sectors combined.” (The Rise of the Creative Class, xiv)

I’ve just started the book, and I am enjoying the positive tone: “It’s up to us–all of us–to complete the transformation to a society that taps and rewards our full creative potential.” (xiii) However, I am a little disappointed that Florida sticks to a capitalist model–creativity is worth this much…isn’t that just awesome?

I guess, to answer Rick’s question, where is nature now? I’d have to say that someone just bought the last of it. Sorry, we’re all sold out.

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