Some thought provoking words from Finley Eversole, "The Politics of Creativity." It's long but well worth the read. The bold is added from me.

I can sit at my typewriter and imagine a time when man will be able to engineer planets in other solar systems into orbits suitable for the support of human life and "seed" them to produce an environment similar to our own. I can imagine art-works that feed the spectators, or a buffalo riding on the back of a giant sea turtle, or transmitting the genetic code of man to planets in outer space on electronic wave impulses. This fundalmental freedom of the imagination places it beyond the control of even the most fanatical police state.

Yet the tragedy is that we constantly destroy man's imagination by labeling it "day-dreaming," "unrealistic," "impractical." In our society, at the age of five, 90 percent of the population measures "high creativity." By the age of seven, the figure has dropped to 10 percent! And the percentage of adults with high creativity is only two percent! Our creativity is destroyed not through the use of outside force, but through criticism, innuendo, subtle psychological menas which the "well-trained" child learns to use upon himself! Most of us are our own "brain police."

But if Freud was right that nothing is ever lost to the unconscious, then the creativity of early childhood must still be present in all of us-latent, repressed, crippled-but present! No less a man than William Blake, one of the great creative geniuses of all times, could say, "You have the same intuition as I, only you do not trust or cultivate it. You can SEE what I do, if you choose." ONe of the fundamental freedoms of a democracy should be the right of every induvidual to his own creative expressions."

~Finley Eversole "The politics of creativity"