Creativity and politics

I have been working on a piece on the general subject of creativity, and what has emerged have been a number of themes: the nature of the spaces within which creative activity is more likely to happen; the capacity of people to "hang out in the fog" and to live with uncertainty and ambiguity; the extent to which creativity is an unconscious process that "happens behind our backs" rather than something that we deliberately shape or control; the importance of bringing together in unexpected combinations both people and ideas; the question of whether there is really ever "something new" or simply new combinations of what already exists. This may seem esoteric and obscure, but the object is to link it to ideas about human development and the capacity to learn. I contrast all of this with the way I see the political and commercial worlds. In these I see little or no concern for truth, accuracy, rigour or imagination, but merely a slavish clinging to propoganda and the cynical manipulation of public presentations. Life appears "determined" and there are no choices, "there is no alternative" is what we are told constantly. There have to be cuts - decapitations more like! The markets and the credit rating agencies have to be "obeyed". Only wealth creation and economic growth can serve human purposes etc.
What different worlds these are then! No space for critical questions, new ways of thinking, being open to uncertainties, let alone the freedom and playfulness that makes us creative creatures.
Perhaps these two worlds simply don't mix - this is a "relation of non-relation", or disjunctive synthesis - or maybe it is about time our leaders "woke up", removed their blinkers, and rediscovered what it might mean to be human? In the meantime this really is a sad case of the blind leading the blind down a long dark tunnel!