Maz3 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 ?... People aren't queuing up to be poets but I think it's down to being a bit of a dead medium in my opinion. Benjamin Zephaniah? John Cooper Clarke? Pam Ayres? ---------- Post added 11-08-2014 at 01:56 ---------- I make "Stone Age" stuff. It's very niche. What, square wheels and the like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Benjamin Zephaniah? John Cooper Clarke? Pam Ayres? All young and hip Do you want me to list dancers, song writers etc etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I make "Stone Age" stuff. It's very niche. Napping up a hand axe or a decent blade from flint sounds pretty creative to me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 A lot of it comes down to poverty. If a child comes from a poor family and only has access to a single pack of loom bands, all of which are the same colour, they can hardly experiment to make different patterns and what not. Whilst the rich child can command it's servants to make all different kinds of bracelets. You have to be creative if all you can use is Royal Mail rubber bands. It's forced by poverty. It's the rich child's servants being creative, but it doesn't matter because the rich kid gets the credit anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliceBB Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 If a lack of creativity is due to poverty, surely it's poverty of imagination rather than material poverty? They are linked perhaps in that even these days in this country many of the materially 'poor' still have the kinds of consumer goods (games consoles, TVs, etc.,) which can stifle, rather than fire, the imagination and creativity. It also depends I suppose, how narrowly you define 'creativity' and on the opportunities you give children (and others) to show it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerstein Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 And therein lies the creativity of your arguments - it's either us or them... The world is not black and white you know... Who was that directed at? I don't know what you are referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteMorris Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Ummmm....Aren't we all creative, to a more or lesser degree? It doesn't 'have' to be something you make or prose you write. Something that is designed to make others admire your creativity. I dunno, things like cooking for instance! No I'm not talking about restaurant cooking, but something you might try at home, that's different from the norm. Something only 'you' appreciate. Posting interesting threads on an internet forum? (Jees I'm gonna get some flak for that one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halibut Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Who was that directed at? I don't know what you are referring to. It was directed at chem1st's redeuctive and simplistic rich vs poor 'argument'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Ummmm....Aren't we all creative, to a more or lesser degree? It doesn't 'have' to be something you make or prose you write. Something that is designed to make others admire your creativity. I dunno, things like cooking for instance! No I'm not talking about restaurant cooking, but something you might try at home, that's different from the norm. Something only 'you' appreciate. Posting interesting threads on an internet forum? (Jees I'm gonna get some flak for that one) Absolutely pete, some threads on here do make you think. Are the long running "make a story following on a sentence" type threads creative? Memes - that's another more modern phenomena - someone has to dream them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerstein Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 Yeah I think many people are creative in ways that they don't even see as creative. I've met a lot of people though who insist they that 'just aren't' creative and I've always wondered how people can be so insistent. I think that belief is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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