Creativity/Brainwashing
May 31, 2019 09:14:50 #
May 31, 2019 10:25:01 #
MauiMoto wrote:
I know baseball is pretty big in Japan and South A... (show quote)
You probably picked the wrong forum for creativity in answering your question.
As you have discovered, there are a great number of anal retentive Canon shooters and PC users on this forum and you have seen some of them in their responses. Not all photographers are creative--many are very good technically and know the equipment, but still cannot produce a merit image worthy of winning an award.
I thought it was a great riddle and if ok, I'll use it for some fun.
May 31, 2019 10:43:08 #
rjaywallace wrote:
MauiMoto - An interesting riddle, but how does it relate to the subject of this forum - Photography? Next time you might want to post items like this in the Chit-Chat section.
Hmm. On my copy of the forum this morning, it was posted in the chit-chat section. Unless your copy is different than mine, perhaps fact-checking is in order.
May 31, 2019 10:55:45 #
whatdat wrote:
Hmm. On my copy of the forum this morning, it was posted in the chit-chat section. Unless your copy is different than mine, perhaps fact-checking is in order.
Again, the OP posted it in Main Photography, and Admin moved it to Chit Chat.
May 31, 2019 11:02:35 #
May 31, 2019 11:49:02 #
Anhanga Brasil
Loc: Cabo Frio - Brazil
Never heard of it, but, considering one of the US passions,
I would say he was playing Baseball... (?)
I would say he was playing Baseball... (?)
May 31, 2019 11:58:49 #
May 31, 2019 12:01:22 #
May 31, 2019 13:07:43 #
rjaywallace wrote:
MauiMoto - An interesting riddle, but how does it relate to the subject of this forum - Photography? Next time you might want to post items like this in the Chit-Chat section.
It is in the chit chat section
May 31, 2019 13:22:45 #
I'll take a shot at answering your questions. There are several of them. I seldom go into the Chit Chat section but I saw this in The Photography section.
1. Yes we are all brainwashed from kindergarten on, but many come to their own conclusions about life, politics, religion and love and find their own belief system. They reject the brainwashing they don't agree with and keep the brainwashing they agree with. The brainwashing is the raw material and our belief system is what we do with it.
2. Are "creative" people less brainwashed? I don't think so. They are just brainwashed in their own way.
3. Does brainwashing interfere with creativity? Obviously not, because creative people reinforce their brainwashing with their creativity (eg. Nazi propaganda was most creative, as is all propaganda).
4. How does creativity work? I believe it works as a mechanism of problem solving. Creativity doesn't spawn ideas, creativity is a byproduct of using your brain to solve a particular problem or reach a goal. It's stretching your brain beyond what it already knows. An example is solving a math problem, or building a bookshelf, or editing a video.
5. Not that you have a digital camera, and since you have a background in it, why not get involved in making videos? I find the whole process of making videos, shooting, lighting, editing videos and sound to be a very creative exercise.
1. Yes we are all brainwashed from kindergarten on, but many come to their own conclusions about life, politics, religion and love and find their own belief system. They reject the brainwashing they don't agree with and keep the brainwashing they agree with. The brainwashing is the raw material and our belief system is what we do with it.
2. Are "creative" people less brainwashed? I don't think so. They are just brainwashed in their own way.
3. Does brainwashing interfere with creativity? Obviously not, because creative people reinforce their brainwashing with their creativity (eg. Nazi propaganda was most creative, as is all propaganda).
4. How does creativity work? I believe it works as a mechanism of problem solving. Creativity doesn't spawn ideas, creativity is a byproduct of using your brain to solve a particular problem or reach a goal. It's stretching your brain beyond what it already knows. An example is solving a math problem, or building a bookshelf, or editing a video.
5. Not that you have a digital camera, and since you have a background in it, why not get involved in making videos? I find the whole process of making videos, shooting, lighting, editing videos and sound to be a very creative exercise.
MauiMoto wrote:
I know baseball is pretty big in Japan and South A... (show quote)
May 31, 2019 13:24:18 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
The OP originally posted it in the Main Photography Discussion forum. Admin moved it to Chit Chat, where it should have been.
My apologies.
May 31, 2019 13:28:25 #
MauiMoto wrote:
I already answered that, the same brainwashing everyone else is exposed to, and I don't know how or if it affects creativity, that's why I'm asking. The story was just to prove how we're all programmed. You can also see the deeply brainwashed get all offended and just prefer to shut it down, instead of help, they're not even curious, since they already think they know it all.
so, if you don't know you're brainwashed, you're brainwashed; and if you DO know and protest, you're even more brainwashed!
May 31, 2019 13:39:49 #
I think Harry Chapin was touching on this relationship between 'brainwashing' and creativity when he wrote the song "Flowers are red". The song and lyrics available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVpkzZpDBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVpkzZpDBA
May 31, 2019 14:18:31 #
May 31, 2019 14:26:11 #
krl48 wrote:
I think Harry Chapin was touching on this relationship between 'brainwashing' and creativity when he wrote the song "Flowers are red". The song and lyrics available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVpkzZpDBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVpkzZpDBA
Great timing. Just this morning, my son "corrected" my grandson for coloring an apple purple. I wish that I had had this song, but I will surely give it to him tonight.
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