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Does Creative Work Make the World a Better Place?
I firmly believe that yes, creative work makes the world a better place.
Everyone can be a creative.
Everyone.
But there are all kinds of messages in the world at large belittling, disempowering, implying, and outright saying creativity is a waste. That’s probably why so many schools cut art and music programs before anything else.
Yet the reality is something very different. Creative works have made our world better connected, capable of being better informed, and better able to grow and change.
Unfortunately, many people use those wonderful creative tools to disempower, force their way, and attempt to control and stifle creativity.
Human beings are incredible creators. It is due to creative work that we harnessed the atom, live in any climate we desire, fly in aircraft, and send rockets to space. Creative work made the modern world.
Creative work is not just art, literature, song, and the like. It’s also science, engineering, medicine, education, and other human endeavors to improve life for us all. Yet people take much of that for granted, which is part of why COVID-19 is still a global pandemic, and climate change isn’t treated as the crisis that it truly…
