To rationally create in reaction to one’s environment is a marvelous act. A great demonstration of intelligence.
I feel creators are lost among the noise, and undervalued.
It’s easy to misinterpret between one who has produced their knowledge, and one who is only a home for the creations of others.
Whilst producing and consuming are related, whilst one needs a level of intelligence to comprehend the relevance of another’s creation, there is a divide.
To create demands imagination, understanding and spirit. One looks upon a void, and projects one’s inner ideals, often in spite of the external environment, often brave and ambitious, often pushing the boundaries and raising the bar. Further realizing the potential nested within us.
It is a representation of one’s identity.
There are those that comprehend a great many substantial things. Yet, with this comprehension, produce only noise. Nothing relevant, nothing substantial, nothing in comparison to the integrity and value of the creations their noise is founded on.
Those that can only consume, don’t comprehend that which is not explained to them. If left to their own devices, will likely destroy or undermine anything of value they’ve encountered or will encounter.
These consumers lack true identity. They are devoid and demanding within. They require constant attention, consideration, support. If they remain in this state, their existence is a prolonged struggle until their inevitable demise.
Their existence is a denial of the essence of life. Change.
Whilst the creator digests the produce of others, it is rationally. A means to an end. To further the creator’s ideal, a tool added to the set in which the creator engages their environment.
It is efficient to learn from others. Yet to rely on others, to produce nothing, is to put one’s welfare in the hands of another. To put one at another’s disposal.
To let one’s will, ideals, and affect be subsumed. To deny one’s experience of greatest practice our kind has engaged in.
It is to say no to one’s own capacity. To sell one’s experience short. For to consume greatness, is never the same as to produce and share it.
To build on the foundations set before one, in the spirit of the foundations, is an act of respect and appreciation. A will to breathe life and strength into what one values.
To will the sustenance and fortitude of a system. To fight against it’s vulnerabilities, and that which may prey on them.
A loving act. An act in the spirit of the living organism.