Comments on: Cultural Creatives

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:29:06 +0000

[...] I’ve written here before, good sociology has shown that at least 10%, often as much as 30%, of any community [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:42:55 +0000

[...] are wired to contribute. Creatives aspire to have their voices play a constructive role in community formation and direction, [...]

By: links for 2009-08-31 – chrishubbs.com

links for 2009-08-31 – chrishubbs.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:31:28 +0000

[...] microclesia ? Blog Archive » Cultural Creatives "The emergence of virtual community, the virtual ecclesia, will radically change global religion in part because creatives-of-faith now have direct access to community formation. In virtuality, the 10% creative core no longer needs permission from 1% structural gatekeepers. In virtuality, ideas live and die not by their ability to further institutional mandates, but by their inherent value to the greater community." Fascinating, lots to chew on. (tags: cjh_comment) [...]

By: » Random Acts of Linkage #125 ::: Subversive Influence

» Random Acts of Linkage #125 ::: Subversive Influence — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:02:56 +0000

[...] La Grou on Cultural Creatives — I always like John’s thinking. Andrew Jones riffs on it a little. Categories: [...]

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:47:13 +0000

Gotcha and agreed – what I’m noticing is the trend for underground groups to often get co-opted by the “system” once their leader gets a bit of media exposure. The promise of money, fame and power for now seems to win out.

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:00:54 +0000

Becky, I doubt we’ll be alive to see this level of change. Nor do I envision any one central “cutting edge ministry” or specific ideology or “underground group” leading any of these changes. Matured virtual community is organically driven and distributed, not centralized – fluid not static – more generative than factional – inclusive to a fault. Virtuality reflects the collective wisdom of all participants rather than the narrow interests of a few. The “change agent” is the system itself, not a small subset within the system. Perhaps hard to visualize as it’s an antithesis of today’s stage-driven models. I can only dream about this new community in generalities, but I do sense that it will revolutionize our understanding and practice.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:08:56 +0000

Has anyone done any research on what happens to these change agents once they become successful? My observation is they often become part of the status quo – e.g., the cutting edge ministry that becomes the cool cult once its gets a bit of press and it loses the ability to be an agent for change and becomes a hipper version of that which it was formed to rebel against. I struggle with this in my own reporting – how do I discern which underground groups I can highlight so that my reporting won’t have an adverse effect? I found an informal mechanism which is to run any group I want to cover by a few people I trust, a system I admit is flawed but it’s the best I found so far.

By: cynth

cynth — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:54:57 +0000

I think this applies to diversity in general – and includes cultural, racial and gender diversity in faith expressions as well. As it is, artists are considered counter cultural (which is how they are wired) which is in itself viewed negatively. It’s all a matter of conformity. the artists will always be outside the conformed norm by default – the minute they find themselves within a defined norm – it’s time to recreate. Florida’s thesis is that technology is a driving force combined with creativity and geographical hubs that incubate the two combined – are drivers of economy and culture.