Why Society Hates Creativity: It's Unpredictable

[urahara]

Should be changed to why "corporations" hate creativity not necessarily society. Since ultimately there's a significant enough portion of the population that want those kind of creative solutions that logically just don't work. It's the entire ethos of Elon Musks personal brand of futurism. That gets people excited because they inherently crave more than what they have when in reality we as a species haven't found a way to break physics enough to make them happen.

[remy]

I agree with everything said here, but it’s leaving out the overlap where something entirely exciting and new CAN get the support of the administration who generally plays it safe. The trick is to read the room. Your key members of leadership are generally of a certain generation. Do something wild that tickles their nostalgia a little bit, and watch their brick wall of playing it safe crumble.

AKA, if the people you’re presenting to are in their 50s and were born in the 1970s, use that knowledge to dress up your idea on a way that they would naturally feel ties it all in and feels safe to them as a human, so they don’t think as much about business risk.

[That_Freedom_Guy]

Creative types have ben excluded from corporations for all the reasons you suggest, and its been that way forever. I think that is to the detriment of the corporations and society. However since only 5% of new ideas ever get to see reality, that means if a boss says "NO!" to 100% of all new ideas, he will always be 95% right. So it seems to make sense, until you realise that the future 100% comes from that 5% seed. I remember when chemical photography was all there was and professional photographers laughing at me for suggesting they should go digital because its the future. My rich, Catholic uncle disowned me back in the 1970s because I insisted that artificial intelligence will become reality, and he replied "Only God can make intelligence ".
Ive studied this for decades now and I think we are further behind because of the lower status of creative people compared to the analytical, sequential type. Thanks for an interesting short.

[privateprivate]

Well, corporations are made of people and many people have a basic hatred of creativity. This has been so and and as the economy further ebbs, that hatred may become more popular, perhaps. Because there will be a lot of people, the paper pushing type, that don’t understand why creative people can’t just shut up, keep their nose to the grindstone and just do what the meathead above them tells them to. People who don’t want to be outshone, whether they are beneath you, lateral to you, or above you. They just don’t get why others are creative and don’t just subscribe to convention. Even when you do create or improve upon something, you may experience a lot of pats on the back, at first. But then, it may be followed by people being irritated with you out of both jealousy and yanking them out of their comfort zone.

You’d think this wouldn’t be so. Creative people often make things beautiful and operate better. But, it just goes to show how mired they are, in what they’ve become comfortable with.

[CosmicKnight]

Saying no is a he only way to have certainty in the outcome. As for not embracing the opportunity, I think this is why existing businesses adjacent to an evolution in their domain miss it and don’t survive.

[quantuman]

if you would see other artwork of Michelangelo's contemporaries, you would very much doubt the claims made of the criticisms of the painting

[iCthe]

Yeah, I constantly come up with a Creative Instagram theme, but People like the idiotic stuff, I even make My Pictures “bleed” slightly into another.