Implicit Truths

I was thinking perhaps it is only right that some of our college newsletter stuff should go up on the Internet if the college isn’t keen on it being in print. They can’t censor me here, and I doubt they’ll find this before I graduate. These are all from the print issue, so yes, they are carefully censored:

Creativity, are we at the end of our rope?

Creativity. It is the sole reason why we aren’t hunting for dinner or bashing women on the head and dragging them off when we want to marry them (and yes, no matter how interesting that sounds we can’t do it anymore gents, sorry).

If it weren’t for different people and their seemingly crazy ideas, life would be a whole lot more boring. Imagine life with no music, books, movies, television or any of our modern comforts. Well, think about this, every single invention that man has cooked up is the fruit of some seed of inspiration and creativity which germinates in somebody’s mind. Creativity is not just limited to art; it is applicable to every facet of our existence. BUT, as I am more concerned with how creativity applies to entertainment, I shall stop rambling and come to the point.

When new movies, books, et cetera come out these days, we find increasingly less original material. We have come to the point in our history where we have reached the conventional and contemporary limits for all facets of entertainment. And it’s not just the artists’ fault either, but also ours. The onset of Consumerism has brught artistic development to a screeching halt. Too afraid to come up with something that might upset the pblic, artists have chosen to make formula art that will please the masses and keep their fridges stocked.

Mankind has been coming up with stories and music for over 5000 years! When we view it from this angle, it’s not too hard to see why there’s a dearth of original material; it’s all been done before. Our fear of the new and of change should also be taken into account. We are getting far too comfortable with what we have already and are not ready to accept something which might be amazing but drastically different to what we are used to. As I said before, we have reached our limits. If we want to evolve not just in mind but in soul, we must cast off the chains that are binding us to yesterday and keeping us from flying. The conventional and contemporary limits of our imagination have been found wanting.

So it is up to us, the newest and latest generation of artists and people, to come up with something better, something new, something that will make people shudder with some new and hitherto unknown sensation as they experience our art. Something.

But how are we to accomplish this mammoth task? We live in MCC, Tambaram. What ever could we do to make ourselves think a lot and come up with new, original art? What, I wonder? Hmmm…