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Creativity and society - Magical Realist - Jan 17, 2017
We live in a culture that suppresses creativity and imagination. From age 6 we begin to be evaluated in terms of our ability to repeat tasks, to take orders, and to comply with the norm. Kids with imagination are encouraged to achieve instead of create. To compete and define themselves in terms of trivial standards like the honor roll or sports trophies. College then comes along, your basic degree factory designed to make you a marketable and employable contributor to a capitalist society. Any creativity you might have had has to be nurtured and coddled on your own, in your alone moments reading favorite authors or writing in a secret journal or drawing in a sketch book. The gift to see things freshly and originally becomes something one cultivates in solitude, with no help from a society and an educational system that spits out one career-obsessed automaton after another.
Thankfully a remedy to this isolation of the creative has finally emerged---the Internet. Now it is possible to have creative thoughts articulated in eloquent phraseology all to oneself and to the entire world at the same time. Such an innovation has restored the lost balance between the successful blathering conformists and the inspired yet silenced dissidents. Amazing insights and meditations once lost forever in the private journals of eccentric recluses can now hatch and sing to the universe thru eternal transmissions into the sky . Kindred spirits may now link up via blogs, discussion boards, and social media sharing their common vision to a world dearth of novelty and integrity. The Internet is surely the greatest thing to happen to the human creative endeavor since the invention of the Chia pet!
RE: Creativity and society - C C - Jan 18, 2017
(Jan 17, 2017 08:17 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [...] The Internet is surely the greatest thing to happen to the human creative endeavor since the invention of the Chia pet!
Janette Ikeda: "There's a glut of creative work on the web. A tsunami of artwork, fan-fiction, independent music and songwriting, poetry, videos of sculpting, etc. Sometimes I feel like the non-monetary value of beauty and virtuosity has fallen sharply. When everybody in this neighborhood has super powers, Green Lantern is just another lawn-gnome added to the resident banality of Willow Street."
RE: Creativity and society - Magical Realist - Jan 18, 2017
I was actually looking for the "like" button on that one.
RE: Creativity and society - Leigha - Jan 22, 2017
I agree to an extent, but the internet though sometimes causes creative people to conform, so one receives ''x'' amount of likes, follows, etc. I think the truest creativity can be found in those who end up ''starving artists'', and only a few people might see their work and think they're amazing. Not that you can't have a huge following and be amazingly creative at the same time, but it happens a lot with music artists, for example. The truly creative ones start off and are so different and refreshing, and then...they get popular, and feel this need to cave to popular wants so they can stay relevant.
RE: Creativity and society - RainbowUnicorn - Jan 23, 2017
children are taught to be robots
so they can get a job to survive
then they built robots to do those jobs
now the robots have the job market cornered ...
now "they" are teaching robots to be children