LilMsLadyPoet15 Dec 2005
Good questions.
1>Homemaker: intellegent but not educated for employment/divorce/100 a month child support for 4 girls/back to school full-time & pregnant with 5th/ welfare& educational grants/Masters earned/worked/started own business.(WE two eldest girls did work, outside the home and inside to raise kids.)
2>"Those countries that do not use their intelligence, that do not allow the freedom from terror, that create an environment in which people must live in survivalist mode, they are what stunt intelligenceâs creative environment. If I might die tomorrow, why should I extend the energy to create anything today? For what?! I will not have tomorrow to improve upon! Freedom to act, and not being acted upon in a hostile environment is necessary for a man to be creative within his intelligence."
(I was speaking about war-torn or famine-ravaged countries where absolute survivalist mode must take over, and where the terror and horrors of reality stunt the intellectual and creative capacity of its citizens. I do not think this is in the same context as the general fear "cower(ing) under the possibility that (they) might die tomorrow.", that I presume you to mean of all mankind's awareness of death, in general.
Free of terror, horror, and immediate danger man will use his intellegence to invent and innovate, according to his needs, motivated by his drive for more efficiency in his work and less labor having to be expended on specific tasks that must be performed, in order to have more time to pursue other goals and tasks.
I submit that a man must have a right to his property and the reward of his labor, if he is to remain motivated to invent, innovate, and produce.
It is through the trial of 'doing' that a man finds inefficiencies and then seeks to find better ways of doing the things he does. Thus, discomfort and some hardship or failure is the motivating factor behind one putting their intellegence to work in the form of invention and innovation. It is through finding what does not work that one looks for new ways of doing things.