The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
The stories our culture tells about creativity almost always concern individuals: think Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Kanye West. These stories are tempting because they are simple, because they appeal to our veneration for individualism, because we love our heroes. We have very few models for storytelling that concern small groups of people, or ent... See more
it has become nearly unthinkable that creativity could be anything but good. It is now nearly unimaginable that some person, institution, business, or profession would not want to be creative—as an end in itself, as the instrument to find meaning, victory, and purpose.
Andrew Root • The Church After Innovation
In a rapidly changing technological culture and an ever-growing information-based economy, creative ideas are the ultimate resource. Yet our current educational system does little to nourish this resource.