Creativity

Trying to put into words a concept I was thinking about.

Indie films became a thing, I don't really know when...but it's a chance to tell stories in a way that is increasingly difficult in Hollywood. Yet I remember someone saying that that's kind of how Hollywood itself got started. As a place to exercise creativity in a way that had been unable to be done before. 

And like, people are creative. We like telling stories, making new things. Or even just putting a new and interesting take on an old one. 

Its sort of like... A river. A force. You can redirect it, a bit.But if you try damming it, the pressure builds until it is released (in some new and different way). So as Hollywood codifies stories, and insists on formulas that they say will work (for their mega blockbusters), it can also create a dam. Only certain ideas get the green light for production. Get the resources to be made into reality.

So people find another way.

The interesting thing about fanfic, and YouTube, is that although there's a lot of crap (which gives you an appreciation for how hard it is, and also gives a lot of people the chance to learn and develop and grow. Sure, it's kind of annoying that people don't know the difference between 'faze' and 'phase', or 'loose' and 'lose', or stop writing before finishing the story.. But then you come across something that's just inspiring for the way they take an idea and run with it).

And, like, this holds true for more than just stories and movies. The powers that be can seem stifling (and sometimes are... But I don't want to get distracted with a discussion of outside-the-box thinking, or how sometimes it's useful to know the box. At least you don't have to reinvent everything we've learned from experience... You just also have to remember your own unique bits, and add to that or build off it).

Like... Part of the reason we have change is that people on top - in order to try to secure their position - sometimes create dams instead of working with that energy.

And so the pressure builds, and finds new ways to flow.

This is, I think, the frustrating part about those powers-that-be. Damming the flood is not sustainable. We know that, we may not know how or when the dam will burst,especially if they keep shoring it up. But it won't last. It can't.

And it would be better by far, for everyone involved (since having your dam burst can cause a lot of damage) to do better. To learn how to work with that flow, and direct it.