Sublime

The final principle is that, more often than not, originality lies on the far side of unoriginality.

Novelty emerges from an individual mind, when it is judged by a committee, orthodoxy will usually prevail.

Numerous other theorists could be named. Certainly the assorted proponents of this recent turn

By foregrounding hope, imagination, agency and creativity, we can get to fully appreciate what it means to be human in a world that oftentimes resists our needs, expectations, and aspirations.

While many of the foregoing assertions seem to suggest that human explorations of the possible lead to a variety of positive outcomes, from personal to societal, we cannot underestimate the darker sides of this engagement. For example, the discourse of possibility can become a burden when normatively imposed

A man can become more creative by practice.

As thought artists, we work in mixed media, assembling mental material from the twigs and seeds, dyes and putties of language, written across times in various genres and by distinct voices.

‘exploratory social science’.