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Creative Minority – Cultural Creatives

What is a Creative Minority or Cultural Creative? In the documentary Spontaneous Evolution , Bruce H. Lipton explains that civilizations have cycles. Each civilization has a development period, a mature (or "ridged") period, and a decline period. The decline period happens due the rigidity being faced by a universe that is always in flux. When ridged thinking and stagnant traditions prevail, a civilization enters decline. During decline, new civilization begins to form, and this new civilization is begun with cultural creatives or the creative minority . The cultural creatives are the people who are innovating a new way to live . Daniel Quinn talks about "the way to live" in his fantastic book, Ishmael . Read: Inspiring Book Recommendations . Ishmael is a book that contrasts our culture (the culture of agriculture, governments, schools, and so forth) to the culture of indigenous hunter-gatherers. Daniel points out that indigenous people knew "ho