Yakov Krotov

Creativity or adaptation?

Creativity is usually limited to the sphere of «artistic creation». Artists, composers, writers are creators, the programmer, politician, teacher may have the most «creative approach».

This is similar to the separation of «initiated» and «profane» in religious life. Only the prayer of a priest, a pontiff, is a real prayer. It is a complete prayer.A layperson's prayer is something second-rate, inferior, incomplete.

This is the archaic view on the vocation of man. A view that alienates creativity not only from «ordinary» people, but also from «priests. When you write a novel, you create, when you give out signatures on the presentation of the novel, you do not create anything.

A layperson's prayer is something second-rate, inferior, incomplete.

This is the archaic view on the vocation of man. A view that alienates creativity not only from «ordinary» people, but also from «priests. When you write a novel, you create, when you give out signatures on the presentation of the novel, you create nothing.

Untrue!Yes, of course, life is mostly not creative, but just an adaptation. We adapt to Wednesday. We are proud to be able to create our own environment, but the environment transformed by man is just an environment. Something external.

Creativity does not adapt to the environment and does not create an environment. Creativity is not about survival, but about life. Creativity is new, and life is something new in existence.

Yes, of course, life is mostly not creative, but just an adaptation. We adapt to Wednesday. We are proud to be able to create our own environment, but the environment transformed by man is just an environment. Something external.

Creativity does not adapt to the environment and does not create an environment. Creativity is not about survival, but about life. Creativity is new, and life is new in existence. Then the new becomes not new, ordinary, familiar. This is great: you can create again!

Any «artistic creation» is not the pinnacle of life, but just the opposite, the foot. A person listens to Beethoven's symphony to live, and to live creatively. To create an intonation after the concert, to find the right note in the relationship, to look like Beethoven did not look, to sound like Beethoven did not sound.To become a new person, seeing people with new eyes. Novelty is never monological, always dialogical. Creativity is everywhere where the dialogue. Therefore, a creative act never belongs to one, it is always performed in mankind and creates mankind, real mankind, mankind of spirit, not a biological mankind.

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