Is it important to be creative and imaginative?

[⚞⛇⚟]

I've noticed that recently, creativity and imaginativity have been on the decline. A lot of people, especially younger ones, seem to not have any of it. However, the people that do still have it seem to be really mentally ill. Is it actually important to be creative and imaginative, or is it just something that spergs obsess over because they have it?

 

[Blasterisk]

Well, maybe you can be creative without being mentally ill, and we could call this being a Gigachad of the Mind.

 

[Brightstar777]

retarded npcs apes lack any imagination

 

[oldTireWater]

the people that do still have it seem to be really mentally ill.

This has always been the case. The only other shortcut to creativity is drugs.

 

[Schwarzwald]

I suppose it really depends on your area of interest. You can have all the imagination and creativity in the world, but if you lack the practical skills to make something of it, it's relatively worthless. I guess it makes you a more interesting person and conversationalist? Conversely, if you have practical skills but lack any imagination and creativity, that's not going to get you far in a lot of areas, either. I think kids growing up now are a bit hampered by not having to use their imagination as much to entertain themselves, provided with constant stimulation with incredible technology that doesn't require them to use those portions of their minds very much.

There's probably something gained as a tradeoff, but I'm too dumb and pessimistic on the subject to think of it. I am extremely discouraged with the things that I see from Gen Alpha, but I do think they'll be a bit better off than Zoomers, all things considered.

 

[Flabba Wabba Jabba]

When home computers were becoming popular in the 80s and 90s, there was a perception that people would be able to spend more time pursuing leisurely activities, gaining more wisdom and knowledge about the world, its history and overall grow the human mind at an accelerated rate.

I think what's happened is some form of equilibrium. A lot of kids/young adults today are utterly retarded because the equilibrium kicked in. Computers can do so much thinking and grunt work for you, so instead of getting creative and exploring how to grow your mind and pursue higher order activities, you reduce your thoughts to maintain constant output.

There's this assumption from boomers that things would inevitably get better over time, so they would assume that no matter what they do, things would get better. You could literally sit on your hands for 5 years from 1968-1972 and your life would have been much better, despite pure inaction.

Creativity is dead because the limitations presented are gone. Doom was revolutionary and required a lot of creativity because of the limitations of the system. Now AAA games are pure shit because the tools carry so much of the workload, so there's no requirement to think laterally.

Might be a wrong take, but it's how I perceive things.

 

[YouDoNotHaveTheRight]

I would say its more important if it puts food on your table. If you have to get it out definitely find a medium to do so.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

On a personal level, no, but it is important for society at large.

 

[skykiii]

Easy answer: YES!

"Ugh, me no able to kill bear! Bear too big and strong!"

"Look me new invention! It stick with pointy bit! Stick bear and make it dead! Then we eat bear!"

"Ugh. Bear meat taste ick. It cold."

"Look me new invention! It called fire!"

Take out the guy making spears and fires and we all die.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

Easy answer: YES!

"Ugh, me no able to kill bear! Bear too big and strong!"

"Look me new invention! It stick with pointy bit! Stick bear and make it dead! Then we eat bear!"

"Ugh. Bear meat taste ick. It cold."

"Look me new invention! It called fire!"

Take out the guy making spears and fires and we all die.

It feels like most creativity nowadays isn't really practical. Sure, innovation is pretty much reliant on creativity, but most creativity either results in art that is useless to pretty much 99.9999% of the world or results in impractical dead ends. Very few creative people actually do something that results in innovation.
On the other hand, an increase in creativity would probably lead to and increase to innovation. Even if only one in a million creative people make contributions to society that actually matter, having more creative people would result in more innovation. However, to the other 999999 creative people, their ideas would just be burdensome. Or maybe the process of making stuff and expressing unique ideas fulfills some sort of basic desire that all people have yet struggle to fulfill, I don't know.

 

[Dialtone]

It may be a result of a lack of inspiration with US kids, what culture does the younger generation have beyond regurgitated internet memes handed down from the previous generation? They have no homogeneous culture or race, no God, no positive economic prospects, I don't blame them.

(I'm sure constant stimulation from mobile devices regarding both social media and pornography also contributes as well.)

But yes it is important to be creative and imaginative at work to solve problems more efficiently, doesn't have to pertain solely to artistic endeavors; however it helps to be able to draw what you're thinking so people can visualize it themselves.