Constraints support creativity
Great article about an economist Albert Hirschman, man who was a planner and saw virtue in the fact that nothing went as planned. A worthy Sunday read 😉
Colorni believed that doubt was creative because it allowed for alternative ways to see the world, and seeing alternatives could steer people out of intractable circles and self-feeding despondency. Doubt, in fact, could motivate: freedom from ideological constraints opened up political strategies, and accepting the limits of what one could know liberated agents from their dependence on the belief that one had to know everything before acting, that conviction was a precondition for action.
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