Article: How Creativity Is Killing the Culture

There is little interest for me in the article. It is just a rant on some aspect of life that is a common occurrence. While it is somewhat intriguing as an idea that there is somehow an inherent flaw to a part of society, there is little to show that there is a trend of creativity as bad for society. The magical use of statistics that were cited could hardly be used to prove anything. The two methodologies for the statistics of the amount of the population that experience depressive episodes is likely differing. The definitions used in the two different time periods were likely also in conflict. As for the statistic that the amount of the population that is being treated for the occurrence of depression has grown, the amount of awareness and psychopharmalogical drugs that were developed and marketed during that period was likely at it's largest point of growth.(According to the documentary "Does Your Soul Have A Cold?" , Which is about depression in japan, the first marketed US depression medication was not introduced until 2000. After the awareness of the condition brought by the drug companies, there was a boom in the amount of people diagnosed.) Even if it was not the case of bad statistical implementation it would still only be a correlation and have no evidence of connection.

It is necessary for, so called, creativity to be part a large part of society. I would be reluctant to use the word creativity because it has more than one definition and I actually never use the word. What i believe the author was likely referring to was a sense of craftiness. Which would be the idea or implementation of skill. He believes very few can achieve at a high standard this craftiness.

Something that is commonly called creativity is a dissent in the structuring of ideas. Which when implemented in various locations in society, including art, there is the opportunity for a greater understanding of the surrounding world. This is what the author likely doesn't get.