I’ve written a great deal this year about the way of a creator, but the creator has a journey of thought a creator has to go through, and that journey begins as a consumer. There is also a middle territory, and that territory has us playing the critic. A consumer wakes from their ways and becomes a critic, and when the critic gets through their fearful stage they can become a creator. (there are a couple more steps but I’ll talk about that later.) I heard something today and it reminded me of the way a consumer thinks. It’s something the President said to the President of China, and it’s something he has said to the Republicans. “Do not view everything through the lens of rivalry.” Rivalry is consumer thought based in dualism, the pesky habit of turning everything into this or that kind of divisions. Dualism is a way for a lesser brain to feel like it understands the world and thus feel control or security. We are taught to be for or against something rather than to understand an issue from multiple perspectives. We are taught there are only two sides to an issue. This is of course [...]
