Help Wanted–Creative People To Save the Planet
March 12, 2009 by Bonnie Boots
Filed under Creativity
Newspapers have been a constant part of my life. So my stomach twisted into knots when the venerable Rocky Mountain News closed last week. This week, those knots grew into an entire macramé wall hanging when I read Time’s list of ten major newspapers it expects to close or go digital by the end of 2009. One of those is the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, the newspaper I cut my teeth on.
Suddenly I knew, really knew how people feel in cities like Flint and Detroit and everywhere else where the unthinkable is happening-companies everyone thought would last forever are closing their doors and jobs everyone thought would always be there are suddenly gone. Jobs like "auto worker" and "journalist."
All around the planet, systems from the last century are breaking down. The world economy is in collapse. Stock markets are melting. Jobs that once offered a lifetime of security have ceased to exist. People that once were trusted have been exposed as imbeciles and crooks.
With all this going on, a lot of people are focused on finding ways to put things back the way they were. Not me. I don’t think things will ever go back the way they were. And if we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll admit the way things were was not particularly good for a lot of people on this planet.
We human beings are capable of so much more than we’ve been demonstrating. And I think this turmoil is life itself calling us out about that, demanding we grow up and find new ways of thinking, of doing, of being. I think life wants us to put on our creativity caps and come up with a whole bunch of better ideas.
Creativity is an innate human quality. Each of us has the power to dream, to imagine and to create. I believe that’s why so many spiritual writings from the Bible to the Mayan myths refer to us as the "sons of the gods" or "made in God’s imagine." For God, no matter how you conceive of that entity, is the Creator and if we are made in the Creator’s image, logic says we are also creators.
Then let us be creative. Let us do what we are born to do—stand up and flex our creative muscles and build new systems, new companies, new jobs, new visions and new dreams!
Bean counters and bureaucrats are necessary in any established system. But now, with established systems in tatters, we can’t afford to let the bean counters and bureaucrats carry the conversation. Only creative people can save the planet!
No matter where you are in your life, no matter where you are on this planet, you have, through the internet, the means of sharing your creativity with the world. Through blogs, web sites and social networks, with articles and videos and audios, you can add your ideas to the planet’s thought stream and help turn the tide toward less fear, more courage and creativity.
The job is open. Will you accept the position?
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Right on again, Bonnie! Every great thinker since time began has been perplexed as to why more people didn’t engage in the practice. Dr. Albert Schweitzer (sp?) summarized the flaws of society in just four words— “People just don’t think!”
Here is a great, short video that will help identify some flaws in what little thinking has been going on, and will hopefully stimulate some of what Dr. Napoleon Hill called “accurate thinking.”
http://storyofstuff.com/
Best regards,
Bruce Chenoweth
George Carlin would love that video! Carlin, like George Bernard Shaw, made an international reputation for himself by thinking at least once or twice a week.
Bonnie so much for the information you gave us in the film about Google Alerts. Had no idea there was such a service for free!
Just a word on your article on ‘Help Wanted’. I believe you are completely right in saying that ‘only creative people can save the planet’. Thank God I have understood from the time I was a wee small girl that I definitely was creative and should have a hand in saving the planet. I am in my 60’s and doing what I can to save it.
Sorry Bonnie …that should have read “Thanks so much for the information you gave us about Google Alerts.”
Hi Bonnie,
You couldn’t have said it better than this. You’re so right, we’re now in the information-age and the rules have changed.
There is no job-security anymore and we have to be creative and learn to use our creativity and be responsible for our own and our income.
For people of my generation, the Baby Boom generation, it means for most of us, (conditioned to be an employee in the Industrial age), that we have to learn new skills.
But it’s exciting to learn new skills and change your mind-set and read books I never thought about reading as an employee.
It’s a whole new ballgame to become an entrepreneur.