You Are Dangerous

The danger of creativity. We humans are the most dangerous being on earth… and I don’t mean in the most obvious violent sense. I’m referring to our most powerful weapon that is unlimited, unmatched and cannot be replicated by the most advanced technology on the planet. We’re all born with it in equal measure and what differentiates us all is how well or how much we dare to use it. We’re may choose to weaponise it or may use it to express our love and feed every desire. And that’s what I want to talk about today. Creativity.Imagine atomic strength levels of creativity lives in a jar in our head. We all get the same sized jar. Some of us struggle to even loosen the lid during our lives, some of us lost the lid and might be locked up because of it… and some of us have figured out how to poke holes in the lid and shake that stuff everywhere as needed and to taste. The spice of life.Where do you sit on this scale? What’s your relationship with this jar or pure creativity? The kryptonite to boredom?If you haven’t used your creativity enough, you’re going to think it’s dangerous. Too spicy. If you’ve used it a lot, it doesn’t cross your mind that it will ever run out - because it won’t. It gives you a hardwire to your soul.Some people confuse creativity with artistic skill. They’re not related. Any artistic skill can be learned and must be treated as an outlet … a tool.Here’s another way to visualise Creativity. It is like walking around with a box of matches… Imagine the power on that box of matches. From zero, we never strike one and they go through the wash… all the way to lighting a toilet paper warehouse on fire. So here, we can see creativity can be muted m, and it can be powerful and very very dangerous. This dangerous level of creativity is what society, and I can only speak for the West, strives to control, reduce, capitalise and if necessary, neuter. Do you see AI a bit differently now? You should. When you are about to undo that jar on your head, just a little… don’t let it know what you’re doing. Don’t ask its opinion. Just do it. Think it. Write it. Draw it. Sing it. Design it. Protect it. Then do it again.Right now we are running in a race, the race of our lives, and the oxygen of our sanity is creativity.Use it. Breathe it in. Breathe it out. Be defiant and create.Give your soul some voice. Let it laugh, let is wail if you like, heal it with this fresh oxygen that is the ultimate human gift, that’s not for sale on Temu… it’s impossible to fake. You are rich. You own it in spades.Go. Make. Create. Dangerously.------------I'm Bel. Artist, designer, scholar, and chronic overthinker. Join me in bed for art history, esoteric rabbit holes, midlife reinvention, and whatever my mind is chewing on this week.🔔 Subscribe on YouTube youtube.com/@belbare?sub_confirmation=1In Bed with Bel is part of Fauun Haus.#midlife #artistlife #genx #arthistory #phdlife