"The success story of a creative economy"...
Here's a quotation I've just read; it's been displayed yesterday on the FB page of the World Economic Forum. It's a quotation from the national leader of one of the most rapidly growing economies in the world: Taken from the World Economic Forum website see here for original webpage It is taken from a discussion which can be watched here ; I did not watch it: what I find interesting is that the Word Economic Forum takes this sentence as a self-standing and inspiring quotation enough to be landmarked and distributed over Facebook as carrying an inspiring message. Such sentences are, in fact, dangerous . They have a fuzzy meaning, but nonetheless presuppose a vision of humanity, an ideology, which happens to be seriously problematic. I will not discuss the many problems with this sentence, such as "what is creative economy "but focus on the core message, which is about potential . Sentences like this one carry irrationality, desires, enthusiasm. The...