The Creativity Crisis
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- BoneCrusher0
"So they want to give the "uncreative" people the creativity?"
Only an insecure, uncreative moron would think that creativity is something that can be given and taken away, like some scarce resource.
- Morning_star0
@ Whatsup.
I understand where you're coming from BUT Creativity is not and should never be the exclusive playground of a selected few who grace the halls of an Arts based School - it should be encouraged throughout society, at any and every age, whether in a maths lesson or working in a factory.
Creative pursuit's are, by definition, subjective - which is essentially why Van Gogh died a poor man. The issue is: the ability to apply a creative way of approaching everyday situations is declining in the USA. The product of a trained artist, designer, choreographer or whatever is entirely irrelevant.
- JSK0
Lets stop thinking this as it pertains to art.
Creative as in inventive in all areas.
- whatsup0
@ bonecrusher- you try to come off as smart, but due to your disrespect in your language, you're either a closet fag or a foolish troll.
If you've gone to art school and taken a basic or foundation art history class, you can easily see progression in creativity throughout the ages, since cave drawings and early egyptians.
Creativity can come from anywhere, Newsweek has written many inspiring articles in the past, this one failed to hit the proper target in my opinion through a perspective of a creative person.
im out.
- whatsup0
@ morning star
Creative has never been an exclusive playground as it's doors has been open to everyone. However these so called "exclusive playgrounds" as you call it were developed to foster one's direction towards creativity.It's also a misguided information to sound pretentious, if you think that creativity can be taught to kids of all ages. However, only at a certain age can you really teach a kid to understand theories and concepts because many aspects are due to experience of the world around them. The ones who will truly fail are the true creatives when you think you can put a score on their work.
- BoneCrusher0
Change of art styles is not the same thing as creativity.
- whatsup0
@ bone crusher, that is not necessarily true. Change of art styles reflected many issues of the past from lack of photography, and the eruption within it, need for communication in typesetting technology have been met with unique individual styles from calligraphy to the development of serif and san serif.
- cannonball19780
People use creativity like it's some godsend miracle solution to everything.
OH NOEZ the whales are dying! Get creativity!
THE GULF! creativity will fix it!
Can I haz marketing? Creativity!The world needs "shut the fuck up" screamed at it through a giant megaphone the size of an asteroid.
- lukus_W0
Creativity prospers when limitations are put in place.
- neue75_bold0
"Give me the kid with a passion to learn and a curiosity to discover and I will take him or her over the less passionate kid with a huge IQ every day of the week."
(r)at,at,at
take out, trap
- ukit0
Bonecrusher, with cheerful posts like this http://www.qbn.com/topics/635790… it's no surprise you're eager to believe that creativity is in the shitter.
"Design is an ultimately worthless industry and career. Somewhere between selling insurance and baby portrait photography."
Can someone say failed designer?
- ukit0
"Plucker recently toured a number of such schools in Shanghai and Beijing. He was amazed by a boy who, for a class science project, rigged a tracking device for his moped with parts from a cell phone."
In a country of 1.3 billion people, we're expected to believe they beat us in creativity based on a single kid hacking his cell phone. And Europe is better in this according to him because...
"The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, holding conferences on the neuroscience of creativity."
LOL. And wait, also...
"...financing teacher training, and instituting problem-based learning programs—curricula driven by real-world inquiry—for both children and adults"
What the fuck does that mean? It sounds like something you'd read on a Microsoft project overview;)
Even if you're able to decipher it, aren't we kind of overlooking the fact that Europe isn't a single country with a single education policy? I imagine the quality of education is quite different in say, Moldova, versus Germany or France.
In fact, nowhere in the article did he offer a shred of evidence to support his broader point - that the U.S. is worse off than other parts of the world. Let's be charitable and assume that this single "creativity test" (sort of a nebulous concept to begin with) proves beyond a shadow of a doubt creativity is declining. Wouldn't it be equally valid to assume that it's falling across the board, given that TV, video games, and the internet aren't unique to America? The Chinese and Japanese in particular love their video games and internet.
So let's look at the outcomes instead. If, say, China was clocking us in creativity, surely we'd see a flood of groundbreaking modern Chinese music and art, that was completely original and different from what the West has produced? As well as, I guess, Chinese cinema, scientific inventions, product design, etc.
Can anyone really say we've seen that?
China has made amazing progress (and being part Chinese I'm proud of it) but it would be a mistake to attribute it primarily to creativity. It's more accurate, so far, to describe China as the "Wal-Mart" of the world, while we have now become more like the Apple or Google or Goldman Sachs. Like Wal-Mart, any company that supplies a large percentage of the world's stuff is inevitably going to be massively successful. But it would be silly to conflate that with them being superior to us in every respect.