What strikes me is that there are two parts to "creative" + "laboratories" that to me are both disencentivized in our society.
The first, "creativity", is disencentivized by a combination of things - most Americans are too busy busting their ass with their jobs (because cost of living is too high, wages are too low, health care is too important, market is too competitive), passive entertainment is too readily available, and childcare is too time consuming (lack of familial support structures because of our recent inventions of isolated nuclear families).
"Laboratories" are spaces first and foremost. Personal space is scarce because housing is expensive, and even if you attain it you need to bust your ass paying it off. Social spaces have been referred to as "third spaces", and these have also been disappearing from American society; probably related to the aforementioned scarcity of time and space. I think this is discussed in the book "Bowling Alone".
This post and your last post have me thinking about these things as results of externally manufactured scarcity of time, space, and community. Whether intentional or not, the game feels to be "keep them busy, homeless, unfulfilled, and divided". Creative laboratories seem to me to exist outside of that paradigm, and indeed would probably undermine it.
What strikes me is that there are two parts to "creative" + "laboratories" that to me are both disencentivized in our society.
The first, "creativity", is disencentivized by a combination of things - most Americans are too busy busting their ass with their jobs (because cost of living is too high, wages are too low, health care is too important, market is too competitive), passive entertainment is too readily available, and childcare is too time consuming (lack of familial support structures because of our recent inventions of isolated nuclear families).
"Laboratories" are spaces first and foremost. Personal space is scarce because housing is expensive, and even if you attain it you need to bust your ass paying it off. Social spaces have been referred to as "third spaces", and these have also been disappearing from American society; probably related to the aforementioned scarcity of time and space. I think this is discussed in the book "Bowling Alone".
This post and your last post have me thinking about these things as results of externally manufactured scarcity of time, space, and community. Whether intentional or not, the game feels to be "keep them busy, homeless, unfulfilled, and divided". Creative laboratories seem to me to exist outside of that paradigm, and indeed would probably undermine it.