Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 53
We should certainly have wonderful political imaginations, for our ancestors sure did.
All around the world, from about 15,000 years ago until about 500 years ago, it was on display with extraordinary results.
An expression found in N. America, Africa, Europe and Asia, where populations depended on an effective and efficient harvest of seasonal protein sources puts a huge smile on my face. Using the salmon runs in the Pacific NW as an example, during salmon season the regional tribes would organize themselves in a very hierarchical fashion, with a boss and a ‘police force’ granted the authority to direct others to do the work that needed to be done right now.
But when salmon season ended that hierarchy was dismantled and leadership became situational; if you had the best idea for an immediate challenge or opportunity, and can express your thoughts to motivate others to agree, then you were the leader for that challenge.
Doesn’t that mean that the leaders and police are always mindful of losing their authority and re-joining their community, so that had to temper any potential for abuse of power against another? Huzzah.
There are also many instances in early culture areas where a ‘police force’ was instituted and present year round, but the individuals who made up the police force were in that role for just a three or four month term, then rotated out and new folks rotated in. Again, a masterful means of making sure there isn’t police overreach or abuse.
Our country needs your political imaginations, please.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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