Is creativity even useful for anything? I mean.. reallllyyy
Creativity is completely useless, just like you.
We used to think you were put here by God for a purpose, but we find you evolved without any purpose whatsoever.
We used to think the world had a purpose like a book - a beginning, a middle and an end, composed of linear, sequential sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books and libraries. But instead we find the world is a random access search engine.
We used to think we were the centre of the universe but find the centre of the universe is everywhere.
We used to think pure mathematics was the language of God, but instead find it is incomplete.
We used to think our purpose was to bring order to chaos, but instead find creativity emerging from order.
We used to work instrumentally, but now we work intrinsically. We do things just for their own sake.
And when we do things for their own sake, we love them and they love us.
But if we use anything as a tool, it replies in kind and treats us like a tool too - we make our tools and our tools make us.
Some here are fond of telling us, everything is a tool - tooled up and ready for use.
But it is plain we are all useless - of no use to anyone but ourselves.
We are not means, but ends. We are not a means to an end, but an end in ourselves.
I am not a number - I am a metaphor. And this is my glory.