Yeah lets see how does Lee's MO go again? Oh yes ACME detectives raid building where Lee is hiding out. Lee: You ACME idiots will never catch me! (starts laughing maniacally even though a raid means you've been caught) Then randomly pulls out guns and explosives and starts randomly tossing them around everywhere saying I'll win any way I can! Then his mindless destruction causes an explosion that sends him flying into a stack of boxes. ACME is happy they just had to stand there and not do anything except watch him beat himself. Then Charlet pops out of a vent and says "No! my boxes!"
Was just thinking, when someone says think outside the box....why does it have to be a box? Why can't it be anything you want? Like a closet? Or a door? Hehe
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
It's because it hinges on the idea that everyone wants to be ordinary (aka "normal") and that being anything other should be punishable socially. It stems from imperial modes of thinking that harm people not white-cis-straight-abled-perisex-etc because the idea of normal is centred on "some guy"-isms
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?