. . . that originality seems to have been lost. Not only in Hollywood, hence the remakes of so many older films or the transformation of an old cartoon or sitcom into a major motion picture. But, it appears that originality and creativity is lost in the average life of every individual on the planet, these days.
I’ve noticed, over the years, that just about everything we do in life has become a rerun of something someone else has done before us. Are we copycats? I doubt it. However I am becoming increasingly alarmed about the lack of creativity we posess as we get older in life. Why is this? Is there some sort of conspiracy theory about this inability to create new ideas, to go “where no man has gone before”?
I’ve heard it said before that the governments in power are created to strip us of our individuality. Not that it is our intention that this happen (as in the case of Americans, we determine those that serve in government). But the collective mindset of government is to devide, conquer and control, is it not?
Dictionary.com defines government as the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
The keyword in the above definition would be political. However, that definition no longer applies to only the political direction. It applies to everything we do, think or breathe. It is a controlled exercise of a power to stifle the common individuality of a person. To bring the community to pre-determined set of standards and aspirations.
If we are not able to expand our aspirations, to examine both higher and lower standards, then how are we to grow as a people . . . as a species? And, what about these standards? Government has set them, not based on freedom, but instead on the collective agenda’s of those who supposedly serve us.
The removal of prayer in the American school system (by the judicial branch of government) was but one such act of government to stifle our individuality, purportedly to create a seperation of church and state. To our discredit, the judicial branch of our government chose to take the context of the words that were not included in the U.S. Constitution, but in a letter regarding the creation of the constitution, and use it as a form of control for the sake of a governmental agenda.
Other examples of government intervention that creates control, thus eventually stifling our individual growth as a people will be forth-coming in future posts here. Your comments and ideas are quite welcome here. After all, this is about our creative thought process and it’s apparent demise.
What do you think?
