Creativeness is the indicator which
separates herd conformism from individuality. In the world where most
persons are used to wait something ready made from others or from
society, those who create their own standards of being and creating
things are commonly described oddballs and bohemians.
Creativity however is not just
something you do for others. Creating things from nothing most often
is something you do for separate you from those who only consume.
Consumerism is the religion of 21th
century. In this post-capitalist era we are living, the only
indicator for living in society is how much you buy and how much you
consume. Those of us who are more interested about creating something
new instead of just living under the definitions of others are the
ones who society sees easily as outsiders and misfits.
When buying and consuming, one is not
creating. When not creating one is growing numb. Numbness in society
is the thing which keep masses watching rerun programs from
television instead of going out and doing something wild.
Creating art is wild. Writing poetry or
painting the picture forces you to step out from your conventional
structured thinking and stepping to nothingness with only your empty
mind with you. In this empty state and space your unconventional mind
can take form or direction you never believed you will. This empty
and critical process may leave you from being a believer to become a
doubter or from being a dogmatist to become a nihilist.
Those three words I hold in my life are
Do It Yourself. Instead of running behind money which gives me
possibility to buy goods, I do things in my life here and now to get
what I want without ready made standards. Here the thing you need to
do is the easy choice are you ruling your life and creating the
reality yourself or does somebody else do it for you while you just
sit and watch your life like a television program?
I am an Active Member in organization
called the Church of Satan. Many people see that organization as
something bad and questionable because of it´s status as
representative of this feared S-word, Satanism. However in that
context I have had pleasure to get to know many creative individual
persons, like poetics, musicians, painters, DJ´s, writers, artisans
and web designers. These people come from many walks of life and from
many different societies. They all hold very different political
views and societal norms. Which, however, is common for most of these
people is creativity. Creativeness gives them channel to put all
these views and ideas together under one creative atmosphere and
forget their disagreements in other areas.
In that sense it is justifiable to say
that certain amount of creative thinking in your thoughts, your mind
comes more flexible and goes easily to different directions without
sorting out what is good or bad. When one starts to create something,
like I do with this text, one should be able to step out from ones
own beliefs and take a stance where any expectations will not define
the direction you are going. By giving up of all your beliefs and
opinions you became free from totalitarian state of mind which only
leads to mental fascism and self censorship. When you make art or
perform something, nothing should be hold as holy or untouchable.
Otherwise you are lost.
We all remember the photos of Nazis
burning the books. For their society the freedom of thinking was
swear-word. That kind of totalitarian system may get some sort of
creative projects done, but for creative artist it is mentally
killing state. Dare to challenge all you have ever believed and step
out from comfortable area. Only then you will feel the wind of
creativity to blow and take you to it´s cold embrace.
Creativity is individuality and
individuality is freedom to be what you are. Without creativity you
become a part of machine and you lose your freedom by losing your
individuality.