LAW or Drugs, that is The Choice
Drugs are the banality of the vagabond…
Creativity, is, in many ways, a truly “chaotic” task.
The main essence of creationism (sorry atheists!), is the idea that order is required for something “new” to be created.
The main essence of “creativity” on the other hand, is the idea that “newness” is required for a new substance to be formed.
The LAW
When the West (and the rest) decided to abandon Christianity, and its laws, it was bound to happen that men would start searching for ways to “get inspiration”.
Creativity, has always been a spiritual act. That being the case, as Apostle Paul said, “one cannot buy the Holy Ghost” (paraphrased!) with money (btw, hasn’t the “Holy Ghost” always been the ‘mediating’ means of the divine and the natural?; once one “removes” the divine, one always ends up with the chaotic darkness, selfishness, and addiction; and once one “removes” the natural, one always ends up with oppression, communism, and fascism). Therefore, there is no creativity WITHOUT both the natural order and spirituality!
Well, the entire world, has been offered a resolution to this “dialectic” by the incarnation of God, the death/resurrection of Christ, and the coming of the Holy Ghost upon the Church… but men, being pigs, have now returned to the filth!
Drugs!!!
It is a rather immutable fact that many of the things we “love” today were created by drug users. Steve Jobs (reportedly) said the following about Bill Gates:
“He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger,…Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”
Well… I wonder if we could have had Jazz, Rock ‘n Roll, the Personal Computer, Blockchain, and most of the pristine art we have today, (even podcasts or standup comedy, think Joe Rogan et al) WITHOUT the psychedelic “world” (excuse the pun!).
The Economics
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Emmanuel Kant and Max Weber gave us all this “Protestant” ethic of viewing the world either through economic power and ethics (Marx and Kant), or through economic capital (Smith and Weber).
Nietzsche, of course, had the audacity to deride it all as mere “fun and games”; more exactly, he called it the “two [even three!] great narcotics”:
What the German spirit might be — who has not had his melancholy ideas about that! But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely. Recently even a third has been added — one that alone would be suffficient to dispatch all fine and bold fiexibility of the spirit — music, our constipated, constipating German music. How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, dressing gown — how much beer there is in the German intelligence! How is it at all possible that young men who dedicate their lives to the most spiritual goals do not feel the first instinct of spirituality, the spirit’s instinct of self-preservation — and drink beer? The alcoholism of young scholars is perhaps no question mark concerning their scholarliness — without spirit one can still be a great scholar — but in every other respect it remains a problem. Where would one not find the gentle degeneration which beer produces in the spirit? Once, in a case that has almost become famous, I put my finger on such a degeneration — the degeneration of our number-one German free spirit, the clever David Strauss, into the author of a beer-bench gospel and “new faith.” It was not for nothing that he had made his vow to the “fair brunette” [dark beer] in verse — loyalty unto death.
Happiness!
The idea behind “capital” is one of promoting human wealth, health and joy. It is, in many ways, very much like the American Declaration of Independence (i.e. “the pursuit of happiness”).
Naturally, if one’s goal is to be happy, they will also choose means to ‘promote’ the most supreme forms of happiness (both temporally and permanently).
This, is one fact that Nietzsche, alongside Kant and Marx, seems to have completely missed!
Activism as Laziness
Naturally, it is rather pitiful for one to see their “success” as entirely predicated on money and its related quantities. Money is, in fact, a complete distortion of wealth! It is on this that Nietzsche was both right and wrong.
Nietzsche was correct in the sense that a society with mere “moralism” will always tend toward a distorted form of “spiritualism”, seen in the over-indulgence in Alcohol, Music and (I might add!) Sports.
To wit, Nietzsche had a propensity to think of “busyness” as the spiritual act of being productive. This is simply not the case. Beyond that, it leads to the rather distorted view of “creativity” as a (mechanically) mystical act; which is simply not true.
“ANGER” as a Mode
I do advocate for the use of “anger” as the superior means of artistic expression / creativity.
Due to its “dangerous” proclivities, anger, in a sense, is like handling a hot lump of coal:
it forces its handler to think, to create energy (e.g. act fast!), to perform; failing which, 1) the handler might get burned (by being lazy), 2) the handler might burn others (by “acting” too fast), and 3) the entire moment might become wasted, uninspired, and a rather freak occurrence of nature (by being a drug/alcohol addict).
