We define creativity as the ability to be innovative; to create theories, ideas, or works that are different from what came before. Creativity stands apart from mimesis, which involves living in the worlds, ideas, and patterns of others.
Thus, creativity must involve creating new words and concepts that did not exist in the past. Each person has a degree of consciousness to them that differs from others. Due to biological and metabolic reasons, some have high memory of the past and perception of the future.
Certain categorizations exist based on what people pay attention to. Some will pay attention to the spoken word, some will pay attention to the written word, and some pay attention to material constructs and ideas. The type of creativity and whether it will be accepted by peoples is based upon their level of consciousness.
If somebody cannot perceive of, much less think of the future, any idea such as a monogamous marriage is untenable. Why would they think of the education of their children, the quality of food, the quality of their surroundings if they cannot imagine or even feel it when placed in a good environment?
The manners and ways we live are physically affected by large-scale technology: the roads and automobile, the internet, the materials and ways that people live. But without social awareness of purpose—the ploughshare is an implement and not a furnishing—a misgearing occurs.
Moreover, as these people enter institutions originally designed for productive purposes, they reconfigure themselves deep into the bureaucracy, trying to hide their paths to feather their nest of lies. It’s only natural because the most important urge is to survive.
But that’s not the curtain call: the entire large-scale edifice decays until small groups with walls start forming, executing at higher ability than those once strong. Those unaware will not realize that the action shifted to another room.
Those from places with poor material development and abstract solidification are eager to embellish outward standards of success: cars, emotionality, and bragging. They yearn for places in their mind seen as “top” without the ability to uphold them—wherever they go, they will destroy. They sell their blood or even their morality and sense of self for a short moment of it all.
They could accept an operational role, but they use lies rather than ability to strive for the top. If they should get there, they turn technological organizations into social-emotional ones, leading to its destruction.
Is there an answer? Hierarchy, social evaporation, weed-picking, lengthier interviewering—all of these are solutions rather than solving the original problem: the unequal distribution of not just knowledge, ability, and resources, but also temperament, perception, and willpower.
It might be possible to solve. But it would take generations of improvement for people who may not see it as such. To those with a short-term view: antics, television, and comedy shows seem creative. To those with a long-term view, the reconfiguration of society itself suffices.