Safeguarding authenticity

After an extended period of consuming (other people’s ruminations) and always seeking best practices before taking a leap, you become a graveyard of regressive patterns shoved into a corner where idea-synthesis becomes inadvertently a taboo.

I do not condemn finding inspiration in the work that other people put out: it would reek of hypocrisy. I argue that you do so with discretion lest the things you put out in your creative practice become lacking of soul, authenticity.

Need I speak of the google-it culture that is well favored amongst netizens which increasingly becomes anathema to our conscious practice? Our ability to critically engage in a subject is being wiped out by the preeminence of putting keywords in an input field with hopes that someone else has solved the problem we intend solving. We’re moving too fast: a pace that undermines our creativity as a collective.

There was a time when all I had at my disposal was a pen, a sheet of paper, and a desire for good grades to write an exposition on a matter. But now, I ‘google it’. I foresee that as the conscious utility of our brains dwindle, mankind will evolve into wearing miniscule heads that can only accommodate an eye.

If we outsource our opinions all the time, we no longer exercise our own taste and lose the capacity to derive our own value systems - Jacky