Keats' notion, mentioned below, sheds an encompassing light on human and professional behavior. In the poet's view, arrived at through careful study and reflection, everyone is intelligent, smart, capable. Everybody knows what's going on. Each and everyone is a useful human being, with a potential for vast revolutionary wisdom, great ideas in their heads. Neither Shakespeare, nor the mighty constructions and engineering marvels of the ancients would have surprised him. Just as nature has cures for our ills and hungers, all the weeds of humanity potentially possess great talents. So, is a college campus a beautiful thing.

If left in relative peace, you'll come up with something, Keats would have held. This is why people write, or draw, or play music, because they have, they know they have, an innate civilizing knowledge within them. So do we have the great expanses of art, from Blake, de Sade, de Maupassant, Caravaggio, Gogol, Chekhov, Freud, Dali, Locke, Hume, Jefferson, Phillip Roth, enchanted and engaged, engrossed by art, creativity, and eureka moments, creativity, drifted down upon us like the heavier elements from deep space and stars.

Buddha, of course, a regular person like or I, understood all moral teachings, like cooking an egg, as Goethe understood the primacy of the leaf in all botanical processes, sharing the same foundation that Keats speaks of, that learning is awakening to what one already knows within.

Then, there are the greedy. Creativity, it seems to them, is done in the form of capital profit at the expense of others, at the expense of another's capacity, time and security for creative modes. They amass fortunes without regard for things like putting people out of work, without regard for people's pensions and dreams of home ownership. They seek fortunes in order to establish the right to dominate other people. Is it a coincidence that the highest creative types, while certainly fans of the security allowing for them to be creative, aren't immediately concerned with getting rich in flashy ways. As Wordsworth says, 'getting and spending we lay waste our powers.' It seems hard to be greedy being focussed on the well, on the great messages within, of light-filled learning and wisdom.

People are right to be protesting these days.

Creativity, perhaps, can be a hard garment to wear. A society can chose to look upon those perfectly normal human beings who are simply following that inner knowledge in judgmental ways. Perhaps it's the sensuality involved in creative processes, as if we were instructed to be guilty about our primal sources. Puritanical, we are quick to point out some behavior as, simply, silly. As if only a special class, powerful, could speak for us.

Let us never lose the moral courage to be creative, to go through the process of uncovering what we already, deep in our hearts, know.