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Which is also why creativity suffers in totalitarian regimes like China. One or two of those ideas are bound to step on the toes of the establishment, but they need to be explored as part of the process.



Totalitarian governments are just one flavor of repression of creativity. Every culture has its unutterable heresies. In totalitarian societies it's the government that enforces this. In free societies it's the people themselves.


In totalitarian regimes, creativity have a complete different side. Just take Russian Authors like fyodor dostoevsky.

Creativity is not only in literature but also in other areas such as business models, Chinese Startups have most innovative business models.




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