Monday, April 28, 2008

how creativity is killing the culture

i dont know if creative people need to be stopped. i think the people who tell people to be creative need to be stopped. if people are truly creative, they will be creative, they will come up with original stuff. most people do what is pushed on them, not what they want to do. in a way people do need to be pushed but if they get pushed and dont change then they arent really wanting to and probably shouldnt be the ones being creative. i think pushing someone a time or two is fine but i dont think everybody needs to push me into doing something i dont really want to do. for instance when melena pushed me to get away from the literal, i didnt really know what to do, but i stuck with it and figured it out, ultimately helping me become more creative. whats crazy about this though is that it makes me think. to be creative, i dont need to be completely innovative, i need to know what ive come from, what my subject is, etc. i need to see what history was like in order to see where i can go. i think that if creativity is grounded in history it can make the culture richer, not kill it. it may even create culture.

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