A few months ago, someone left an Amazon review for a Creative Thinking Journal, I created. The review stated that the journal might have been worthwhile if the guided exercises weren’t “specifically about liberal thoughts.”
Huh! I thought. I had no intention of writing a book about creativity for leftists. Many of the creative activities introduced in the guided journal are open-ended and rely on free association, allowing users to add anything they choose without being told what to say or think.
To be inclusive, I even sought out to make the journal’s exercises, imagery, and thought experiments gender-neutral, multi-cultural, and non-political. Which I suppose may be liberal unto itself.
The question nagged at me: Is it even possible to create a book on creativity that isn’t inherently liberal? Isn’t divergent thinking, non-linear thought, reimagining the world, creating new ideas and applications for things — inherently liberal? That doesn’t seem plausible, does it?
Let’s Investigate! But first, for reference, here’s the review in full:
“This book could be a lot of fun, however, it only sees one side of things, it only talks specifically about liberal thoughts and does not take into consideration any other opinion. It is too bad they have not taken anyone else into consideration…
