Kids Are Creative!

Yo Mamma

As we progress from childhood to adulthood, we begin to supposedly gain intelligence, yet we mysteriously lose all creativity we had towards the beginning of our lives. The thought of this reality depresses me, but not nearly as much as realizing that most of us think we have progressed in a positive way over the years. This common assumption is far from the truth. If we still had our imaginations of yesteryear, we’d be able to keep ourselves entertained with absolutely no money, and we’d be smart enough to realize that putting bullets through human flesh is a lot less fun than playing hide-and-go-seek with the neighbors daughter (some of us have realized that hide-and-go-seek is still fun, as long as you’re playing it the right way with the right people :rolleyes: ).

In theory, creative individuals have higher IQ’s than just book smarts, yet if a person is an artist and sees odd things in paint blobs, he’s considered to be a crazy, psychotic, hallucinating, Loon (when in reality his IQ is higher than that of a governmental representative). I’d give anything to think like that peace loving hippie, who’d think a vibrator is an alien spacecraft, and that the sun is a giant light bulb that will need to be replaced within the next week by a man with a really tall ladder.

The proof that we have lost all creativity is that 99% of humans past age 20 look in books, towards media sources, and to religious leaders to help us figure out “what is fact, and what is fiction”. When we were kids, people would tell us what they believe as fact, and we’d listen to them as long as they were around…but once that person had left, we were back to thinking the moon was made of cheese and that making ugly faces would freeze your face permanently! Sure those myths were told to us by adults, but they were fun to hear about, and we usually tried to push the envelope to see if these facts were really true or false. Half of creativity is doing things to get a reaction from people, and figuring out things on your own (not needing other people’s “facts” to influence the way you think).