I wonder based on personal (not scientific) observacion, if poverty robs people of safety needed to be creative.

It is hard to stretch into new areas of your mind and soul when you are mired in chronic stress or lacking options to supporting yourself economically or of safety. I can also hypothesize that a lack of initative and crtical thinking are shared issues in this arena when you have not been pushed (or ever been taught) to think critically or to create things yourself.

I wonder if this is why these dynamics, with my outsider eyes, seem to keep repeating themselves until other interventions specifically take place to break the cycle.

When collaborative and caring people come together to say, “This needs to be different. We need a different culture. We will make a ruckus in partnership with communities to see these changes happen.”