Why is Creativity needed-Mr. Moon's essay

          

Human race isn’t doing too great these days. Not only is there the everlasting structural poverty and inequality, the wars in the Middle East and violations of human rights, there are new problems appearing: Global warming, economic crisis as the bubble economy crashed, and so on. We aren’t doing too great these days. Creativity has been a characteristic that mankind appreciated since the earliest of ages. From the great inventors of the pottery, to the builders of ships and magnificent buildings, that characteristic, creativity, was of great use. However, the creativity has never been in more demand before, as the world spins out of control.

 Creativity helps solve the problems that we currently face. While this may seem obvious, it illustrates the core of why creativity is now in more need than ever before. Few hundred years ago, the problems were less complicated than now. Back then, the people were ‘similar’. Most people were farmers or worked in a job that was pretty much the same from everyone else. The demands were simple and united. Thus, solving the problems of those times were more a matter of convincing the ruler rather than finding solutions itself. Now, the jobs, needs and demands of people have diversified dramatically. No longer are the problems simple to solve because these needs and demands of people often clash against each other. If one takes, the other loses- the inevitable tradeoff. Since the problems are getting harder to solve, it is now more the matter of finding a solution that many would agree upon rather than imposing it. This process of finding the best solution requires creativity. Therefore, creativity is in the most need now than it was before.

           Predicting the future, as hard as the futurologists may try, can never be perfect. The problems that we face than will be of total difference from now, or it would be more complicated. No one would be able to foresee what will happen and prepare for it accordingly. This is the part where creativity comes into need. Creativity is the ability of the people to think outside the box. It would allow people to come up with ideas outside the textbook, outside the conventional ways and solutions that they used to have. Creativity, in short, will help us guide through the future. Human race faces a dark future, at least for some time. Global warming is just getting worse, and most economists foresee depression for some decades to come. Therefore, mankind needs creativity to guide themselves through the darkness and unexpectedness of the future.

          World is spinning out of control. Turning on the news, we can almost feel it. The worldwide disasters are tangible. It is more complex and more difficult to solve than it ever was before. In order to solve the problems that we have now and to guide ourselves through the future, we are now in the most need of creativity than ever before.