It’s become ever more apparent that the idea to which all inovation is built, is become a sort of cliche, consider how the word is used these days. Social networks are often describe as create endeavors, but the reality is that they are just copies of ideas and forms of expression that already existed. These days what we consider art, is more like a photocopy than a creative expression. Popular music is more often then not, a throw back to another time, most notable the 80’s with the re-emergence of ‘New Wave’.
Taking a look at what could be called the new ‘creative outlets’ like YouTube and 4Chan, we see nothing but repeats of repeats, a mash-up is nothing more then a copy of something that was creative in days gone by. For how long can pictures of cats with words (lolcats) be impressive, it’s already bland to me.
Facebook is another example of modern expression, best put it is anti-individuality and counter-creative. Every page is exactly the same, if you’ve seen one profile, you have seen them all, aside from a few words and a picture or two.
Crowd the cloud, dissidents and radicals are being marginalized more and more with this new method of information gathering and distribution. The crowd or cloud is a perfect example of mind-space control, driving out opinions that differ from the normal is nothing more then normal these days, not to say that was the case before, just that the Internet created an opportunity that never existed before, but is already being taken away.
So whats the point? Most likely that this whole entry lacks creativity, but more importantly that we are all losing our sense of creativity, or at least our expression of it. The world is embarking on a journey into a new dark-ages, the people of tomorrow will look back and say we ‘were a photocopy culture.’
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