Thursday, September 3, 2009

Creativity... ahh gimme a break..

Lets get down to the basic question here... Whats the point of writing?... Reader's admiration i suppose unless i missed the entire theme i guess.. So when a writer writes, he seeks approval from the maximum people who happen to read it.. But then more the people who read it more the minds' approval he seeks.. In the process of doing so the writer has to tone down his creativity both in terms of ideas and language. He needs to stick to a particular language structure and a theme his reader could relate to.. Even a writer of a relatively abstract piece needs to be aware of this fact lest he risks loosing the fame he enjoys among his relatively intellectual readers.. He needs to ensure that even while venturing among his wildest imagnations he has his reader's atleast guessing as opposed to writing him off as a guy finally gone mad..

The point is the best case scenario that exists for a writer is to have a limited readership.. The less the better, lesser the mind that cares to venture into his ideas lesser the censure he risks.. But then, all the famous writers that the world has ever known have kindled millions of minds.. what about them.. Does this rule apply to them? Did they suppress their ideas, their style, their anger, their true ideas, to conform to the minds of the larger population, to become famous perhaps, to make money ofcourse... Thats one cause nobody in planet earth would object to..Everybody is after it afterall. The very parameter of being successful infact is the number of digits you have stashed up in your bank accounts. And why is being successful so supremely important.. Well, because this very question might land you in a category of people called loosers.. So where does all this take us to.. It takes us to the dichotomy that life always takes us to.. Absolute Happiness is an illusion and you shall never have it..

The larger point is that the fight between true creativity that ignores popular credentials and the so called creativity which "appeals" to the masses has been and will be fought forever.. There might never be clear winners, there never will be, the very nature of this planet earth would ensure it.. Considering the amount of time the likes of Galileo and Einstein took to put across their ideas to this obstinately sure world, it looks like we shall continue to progress in the same stifled manner that we have