Waxing Philisophic...
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"Maybe I'm trying to create some kind of arguement that a creative life does humanity more good than a life dedicated to actually helping people."
"i don't think a creative life will do humanity more good than a life dedicated to helping out people. seriously. i think people rather be helped than be given a painting. unless you can eat the painting or use it to heat up the furnace."
There are essentially two types of people, those who create, and push things forward with new ideas, and those who sit on there asses and watch. Creative life doesn't just do humanity good, it might be the only way to do humanity any good. You could send a check to a poor starving kid in a poor starving country, or you could understand that said country is starving because the u.s. unloads government subsidised crops into their market at prices way below the market rate, the people of the country flock to these cheaper foods and their own agricultural system goes bankrupt, a few years later the u.s. demands that the country remove their terriffs thus reduceing the price of imported food even further, the country says no, the u.s. refuses to sell them food, and without any remaining agriculture of their own, they starve. A check wouldn't help these people at all, the only way to help is to try to fix the corrupt imperialist system responsible. How can you fix a broken world? You don't need to grow your own vegetables and live in a cardboard box. Activism is about being aware , of what you're buying, where you're money goes, and your own contribution to society.
"I am a tool of a society that uses me to further it's oppresion over others. The creative mind is an elitist mind creating reasons for the haves to look down their noses at the have nots."
A creative mind is an elitist mind, an arrogant mind, because it cares nothing about the halves, halve nots or anyone. A creative mind thinks for his or her self.
"And I watch this thread die as no one is able to give any good reason for 'design' or 'creating art' being meaningful in the world at all."
Art, science reason, thought, these are meaningful things. Societies, or groups of people in general, have a predilection to lapse into the stagnation of religion, politics and mysticisms of the moment. They worship that wich demeans the potential of man, that which screams 'we are the weak, the fruitless meaningless, nothings that exist solely for a (ficticious) god to watch and amuse himself with, we are the voice drowned in the mob.' The uncreative contribute nothing to society but dead weight in a world led by inertia. The creative, create. They develope new technologies, new ideas, new breakthroughs in understanding, they refine how we communicate digitally, they show us who we are and what we could be.