Creative Balance By Steve Beckow Posted July 12, 2022

[Manuel Tavares]

Creative Balance
By Steve Beckow
Posted July 12, 2022
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/07/creative-balance.html

Are the animals ahead of us?


I began my career as a historian examining how late-Victorian authors in English Canada represented the process of growth. (1)

They believed in something contemporary historians came to call “creative repression”: We grow by denying ourselves.

The body was seen as a fixed energy system. If we wasted our energy physically, we’d pay for it emotionally or psychologically, etc. There would be a snapback, a boomerang effect.

Women who give too much vent to emotions come to suffer from neurasthenia or nervous exhaustion. Men who bleed off their sexual energy through masturbation go mad.

Or so the theory went.

My generation, which was looking at the late Victorians, viewed its own philosophy as being “creative expression”: We believed we grew by expressing ourselves. Let it all hang out. Cool, man, cool. We tried everything, explored every path, visited every sacred place.

I’ve covered what happened to the flower children elsewhere. They were destroyed by the same forces that now want to rule the Earth. It was easy for th; they had a secret weapon called “automation.” (2)...+
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