"Creativity Now" made me laugh out loud at some parts, and others made me want to cry. My mother always said that I was born thirty years too late, mostly because of my obsession with Heart, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen (and let's not forget the E Street Band), Styx, and Supertramp when I was barely nine years old. That's always made me feel like somewhat of an old soul... being on the bus with The Moody Blues in my Walkman and my big-ass flared jeans. I feel like things were simplier then (even though I know better now). When I started taking art history courses, then I began to think that maybe I was born many many centuries too late, because I could've been happy living in Egypt under Akhenaten, or on the island of Crete (the supposed location of Atlantis). I just feel like things in antiquity were much simpler. This chapter reaffirmed all of this.

"In fact the concept of imagination itself is under attack in the postmodern Western world, where the creative humanist imagination has been replaced by a depersonalized computer system of pseudoimages."

Geez.... bleh. Way too true, Mr. Hughes. Real, original pieces of art have little resonance in our mass-media age because they can be reproduced so easily. It was depressing when he quoted Andy Warhol and his 4,000 pieces of art that he can do in 24 hours. They'll all be the same work, he said, and all of them masterpieces. That makes me feel like no matter what I do in my life to make it special, someone has already done it, said it, thought it, painted it, whispered it, sung it, shouted it, lived it. It made me feel kinda insignificant because of the shadow that technology pours over this day-and-age.

Even the music that I love oh so much from back in the day can't be praised as originality when artists today are reproducing songs that have already been sung. Movies do the same thing... how many remakes can you make of Ocean's 11, Hairspray, and The Italian Job? This ability to so easily pirate/mock-originality made me think of all of the wonderful little diva singer-girls that have been caught lip-syncing. You know Britney Spears (pre-cosmic-breakdown Britney) was banned from performing anywhere in Hershey Entertainment and Resorts after her first concert? This was back in like 2003 or 2004. Why? Oh she lip-synced the whoooole concert. And Ashlee Simpson on whatever late night show that was? It's kinda gotten sad. It makes a girl wonder what she can do in her life to mold it into what she really wants it to be.