It seems that the american mass is a paper thin as the cash that they pray to.

Creativity is not something that happens instantaneously. It is not even something that occurs in the instant. Creativity requires a certain dispostition to the world. It is a way of leading ones life, of living.

More and more, I’ve noticed that there are constraints being put on me and the person with whom I’m interacting that are imposed from some unreachable domain. For example, when trying to deal with someone at a corporation, the corporation imposes constraints on the actions of the person I’m talking to. The person understandably doesn’t want to get fired for doing something out of protocol, but this leads to a complete alienation. The person can use the protocol to point the blame for non-action to a vague entity called the corporation that has no physical interface yet still maintains a very real presence within its domain. This kind of interaction is proliferating into every social space.

Social structures are being designed so that abstract entities mete out dictates without any way for a dialogue to take place. Protocols, rules, and contraints are all being attributed to these physically present but materially non-existent systems such that they have complete control over the space within their borders. Consequently, within the borders of the corporation or any similarly structured space, one is confronted with submission, the complete surrender of control.

American society as a whole tends to follow this trend. We are pushed hard (although we may not necessarily know it in any given situation) to submit to the culture of constant destructive consumption. Submit to the car. Submit to the computer. Submit to the power grid.

What needs to happen is a fundamental reorganization of the placement of technology within our society. Technology needs to be driven by the collective desire for cultural creativity instead of coming to us arbitrarily from the military-industrial complex. We can make for ourselves a culture that uses one of its most basic tenets, the value of the individual within a community, as a starting point for building a community of individual creativity. We need to take control of technology at an individual level as opposed to having it imposed on us from the outside. The quickening march of technology cannot be stopped, but it can be diverted away from the mummification of our minds.

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