What exactly are we being distracted by on the internet and television? The flourishing unbridled creativity of millions of people like us, far more than ever before in history, no?

If people were the same back then:- Most people hung out and watched the Camels being carved, many watched others `reacting` to the Camel carvings, and a few critiqued the Carvings. Only a few did the carving.

The day archeologists declare they've excavated a meme that's "older than the tiktok", you'll be proven right.

Preposterous. Creativity has never been more unbounded and flourishing than it is now.

I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers. For these projects, you probably had a "visionary" but it's stated that the creations were likely a community effort and maintained over time.

> I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers.

This has likely been the case throughout history.

"Look, Bob's useless at hunting, but those cave paintings are pretty neat. Let him stay home."

Community projects are still a thing, they're just not as grandiose, partially to do with different priorities and restrictions (making giant rock carvings is rarely top of peoples agendas, nor top of the local councils approvals), and partially due to the fact that they look lesser due to all the other amazing things people are doing on the internet.

And even there e.g. a blockbuster movie requires the collaboration of far more people than were involved in carving these camels.

> I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers.

That's as good as it's ever going to get. The rest will always be consumers.

“B-but it’s not the sort of creativity I like to see, so no creativity is happening.”

Boom Boom

My kids (10yo, 9yo, 8yo) got grounded for a week for not listening and misbehaving, with no TV or tablets... and the amount of bickering and complaining about each other dropped like a rock because there's nothing to fight over.

Sarcasm? I despise TikTok and the like, but you have to agree a lot more creativity goes into it than into just carving a camel.