Creativity Is the Biggest Threat to Tyranny

I have been hesitant to go forward with this coaching business at this point in time. Not because I’m unsure about my choice of direction - it has been 3 + years in the making, after all. Rather because of the direction of the country.

I am a political person. I was barely able to contain myself during Drumpf’s first administration. I wrote my first fiction story during COVID. First draft was horrible. The only thing of value for me to come out of his time in office was delving into the craft of fiction writing to get out my frustrations through a character-Actually through a number of characters who were all upset with the no-nothing big mouth, constantly clogging the airwaves.

The Improbable Assassin in the Wine Whine Club was never published. I was advised against it and now it would be illegal to publish the plot of an assassination of a sitting president. Dangerous for me even if the characters plotting the deed were just fiction and in the end the protagonist has a change of heart. I have to say the dialogue was not great, nor was the structure. Perhaps I will work on it in the future, though I suspect we will not want to be reminded of the horrors of this administration nor his first attempt to distort democracy.

The reason I have decided to go forward with coaching at this time of unrest and upheaval, especially coaching older women at a crossroads, is in the title of the blog.

Creativity is the biggest threat to tyranny. That might not seem obvious at first. How could creativity be the biggest threat?

This administration seems to be joyfully spewing hate and committing atrocious acts of evil for evil’s sake. What will my creativity or joy in it do in the face of the horrors we see every day, which I will not spell out here. Not going to give them more power.

I think they get power and some insane form of satisfaction when we wring our hands and condemn them to the hell they are creating.

I agree with the people on the airwaves asking us to lean towards the joy. I think we resist authoritarianism by creating things of beauty and impact, living our lives in community, sharing our wins and our joys. For they have nothing - the destruction and acts of terror may seem to give them joy - it does not in and of itself. They feed on their greed and accumulation, their hate and mutilation, their evil deeds and doings.

Do you think that one can be satisfied in a life of destruction, mean thoughts and cruel acts? Do you think that losing one’s humanity is a joyful experience?

These people appear to be the monsters of our nightmares and perhaps they have become them.

The act of creativity is an act of self-creation. When we create it is an autonomous act. That is why it is a threat. When you create, you are moving from within yourself- your mind, your other mind-your heart and your other mind- your intuition, are involved.

Every creation includes thinking and doing stuff that gives you joy or satisfaction, or even dissatisfaction with the outcome- but feeling. Always your creation, always generating feelings.

When you can get in the flow of life where creating can take us, we are out of their control.

We commit to our own authority to make or bake or paint or write or sing or take photos or document or play music or play a game or walk in nature or hang with your pet or do your job or your chores whatever you do to create. We are creative beings- it is our nature to create. We create our lives every day. When we do that with consciousness and sovereignty, which means authority of self, we are walking and talking self-possessed human beings. A threat to those who would take over our minds and hearts.

So yes, I want to guide and support women who don’t want to sit on the sidelines of life watching despairingly as the wanna-be despots commit their daily acts of atrocity.

Those who are being called to be or do something at this time when it looks like a withdrawal from the resistance struggle.

We can do both things- write the letters, make the phone calls, go to the marches and be or do what is calling us now. I believe that who we are becoming in this time of rampant change is important for us, our community and maybe even the world at large. So, allow what’s asking to be born in you to be. And have some fun in the becoming.