Why don't people show more creativity?

I assume people are always creative, but they seem to be lacking.  Perhaps I should move to Japan, where people are more creative.

Perhaps if there was a free market there would be more creativity.

People always creative?  No.  What is creativity?  What is imagination?  Certainly we can all spontaneously generate images in our minds and manipulate, rearrange, and mix them with other images, but can anyone generate something truly original?  If not, then creativity is just the skill with which we rearrange.  If so, then I guess I'm just not creative.  I find it interesting that you believe the Japanese are more creative than people where you live.  Many Westerners believe that Easterners are not as creative, and often call them great "mimics".  I believe this is a cultural misconception, and that creativity manifests itself pretty uniformly across cultures.

Japan is good at developing new ideas, not creating them.

>>3
Brains are not computers, they do not work out equations with 1s and 0s using transistors, they are capable of modifying themselves and they work with synapses from several different types of neurons all of which are directly affected by phenomena on the quantum scale in the same way as the weather. It follows that although the vast proportion of our thoughts involve deduction there are random chaotic fluctuations in our brain that provides new stimuli thus allowing us to perform inductive reasoning, similiar to how radiation and carcinogens modify genes which are then tested through natural selection.

>>5
I hear ya, and believe you as much as I can without reviewing research, but it's hard for me to see.  Ironic that I'm considered very "creative", and skilled in acting, piano, and musical composition.

>>6
Well the intensity of brain cell signals matters, which means random quantum fluctuations have an effect on them, which means the butterfly effect applies, which means the brain generates random thoughts now and again so we are not deterministic and presumably creativity is the ability to take these random thoughts and put them to good use.

Japan produces a lot of entertainment for its own culture, from movies, books, cartoons, comics, music, but they represent Japanese culture, Japanese thoughts and ideas, and are made by Japanese people for a Japanese audience. Despite how much of their entertainment gets exported, a lot of it stays within the country to be enjoyed by its own people.

I used to think entertainment in the US was done this way. Someone has an idea, they create something, and it gets presented back to the people. If someone has a unique American perspective then they can make anything and get it published to show their own view of American culture.

I wanted to write novels, screenplays, comicbooks, cartoons, and this being the land of opportunity, with freedom of expression, I expected creative works to be accepted on the merit of their creativity. Instead I found roadblocks in each industry, all with the same last names. The gatekeepers expect you to be part of their club before you can submit your work, and you can't submit it unless you're part of their club. Try submitting a novel that doesn't conform to what the publisher expects, and since everything gets filtered through an agent first, you'll be rejected for not fitting their conventions. Try creating an animated work that doesn't fit the accepted conventions of cartoons as simpleminded entertainment, and you'll be rejected by TV networks and movie producers. Try sending the script for your movie in contrast to the dreck that gets accepted and sent to the masses, and guess what happens. Comics would be a great medium of expression, but guess who commands the industry.

Now the most obvious way to get around this is to go one step above and create the company that will publish your work. That would be fine except you need capital or a loan, and most banks expect you to be paying a mortgage as collateral. Even if you do get funding, you don't have the massive advertising and distribution network that the major companies have, so there's a good chance your work will go unnoticed.

The Internet seems like a great way to sidestep all of this, because you can create any media you want for any audience. But guess what, you still need funding, and most Internet content from independent creators do not have the budget to make anything on the level of the major companies who ensure their works stay mainstream.

There's so much griping about how our country's entertainment doesn't represent our own culture, but if you could make enough entertainment to compete, if you could represent our culture for our culture, then you can fight the creative monopoly and surpass it.

But who has a few hundred million to spare?

>>8
You should move to Europe, they subsidize all kinds of art/cultural bullshit here!

Where?

>>8
tl;dr

>>11
tl;dr version: I CAN'T COMPETE THEREFORE SOCIETY IS WRONG

First you have to accept that the publishing industry is run by Jews and their Jew agents and they will only look at books that meet their Jew criteria of Jew values with a high return on Jew investment using their Jew network of Jew printers, Jew advertisers and Jew distributors funded by Jew investment from Jew banks.  You can self publish, but you'll sell less than one tenth of what you normally would using the Jew publishing network.  Dan Brown wouldn't be a runaway bestseller if he self published or published through print on demand or through e-books, since his books wouldn't get to be in front of every Barnes & Noble without coordinated Jew ads creating manufactured popularity by multiplying sales on the evening Jews and Jewspapers.  Or you could write a book and hope it does well based on the quality of writing.  Good luck.

>>13
Seems like they have quite a diverse business model. How do I invest in Jews?

>>13
First you have to accept that your life, it's successes and failures, are your responsibility.  Then you have to understand that there are many successful Jews in many industries and professions because they value education and work hard.  Or you could keep being a worthless little antisemitic bitch.  Good luck.

>>15

Keep on drinking that Starbucks, keep on reading your NY Times, keep on listening to NPR and watching CBS.

>>16
Once again all of your assumptions are incorrect.  This is because the very foundations of everything you believe to be true are in error.  What's saddest is that you've been forced to  overcompensate with such an overinflated ego that you're now incapable of even hearing reason.

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/bombshell-abc-studios-memo-a-blueprint-to-rip-off-foreign-tv-series/#comments

>>17
Bigotry isn't necessarily a defense mechanism against an inferiority complex although it may originally have been. Most bullies were bullies in childhood and remain bullies for the rest of their life, it is a conditioned response for them to seek out weakness and faced with the social taboo of bullying as an adult they often divert their attentions to large groups.

>>19
You call it "bigotry," I call it "intelligence."

The people who cry the the most about "racism" are typically urban whitebread liberals who suffer from a severe case of white guilt, who send their own kids to the lily-whitest private schools they can find, who count the nigger-to-human ratio through the glass at the 7-11 before deciding whether to go in, and who are constantly looking over their shoulders, clicking their tongues about those awful, awful redneck hick racists, who dare to speak aloud what they already know.

>>19
>>20
Unsophisticated shit-house psycho and socioanalytics are unsophisticated.

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/dreams_on_spec/

>>20
Well, you see, I also dislike PC race baiting and self proclaimed "progressives" who keep parroting retarded cliches as old, dry and worn out as their mother's pussies, I'm ok with a little bigotry aswell, as long as it's not unfunny like Kramer. The problem is with those jewspiracy theories, if it had something to do with Israel or New York that would make sense a bit more here, maybe if you were clearer about the nazi propoganda theme, but otherwise it's just weird.
>>21
1+1=2 is not sophisticated but that doesn't mean it's incorrect. Try using logic next time.

>>23
Sophistry.  Try using logic that's not qualified subjectively and which addresses the point directly.  Your post was no more logical than the subsequent post.  You abuse logic by using it as a veneer.

>>24
You're the one who uses "sophistication" as a measure of validity.

>>25
Correct.  And you're the one who attributed logic to your post.  See how that works?

>>26
Yes. You don't have a logical counter-argument as my argument was logically conclusive.