“Democracy is institutionalized humility” versus “Authoritarian movements sell the thrill of certainty.” Thank you for a piece of insight to help me understand what is happening right now.

I am wondering how these ideas about reason do or don’t map onto creative people? Creatives live with uncertainty, or at least an inability to control everything. You might be a musician, but the acoustics of a room affect how you sound. You can’t control it. Light affects art. The material has its own behaviors. It will mostly do what you want, but it does not perfectly obey. Sometimes you get the happy accident, which is part of why creating is exciting. Is the desire for power that I often see in practitioners of business, law, or politics an unconscious lack of comfort with uncertainty? Is it an unwillingness to accept chaos? How much of it comes from a lack of confidence, a secret fear of the lack of skills to deal with the chaos of living?