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7/9/2025, 9:52:25 PM
Oh, and while I'm fucking at it, let me just say:
The dichotomy you've presented between artsy/creative folks and people capable of complex abstraction/STEM types is false. STEM types ARE the creatives. They aren't opposite or antithetical. They are expressions of the same brilliance. Life isn't an RPG where if you have too many stat points in creativity it comes out of your INT. If anything-and this is brutal-dull people intellectually are dull creatively as well. Deadass, IQ contributes enough to the creative process that a brilliant person in mind has a much higher potential for artistic greatness than a dull person does. A work of art *absolutely* suffers when its creator is dull mentally. To even speak about intellect and artistic ability as separate things, rather than simply collapsing that into one name for the selfsame light, confuses the issue badly in this instance.
Think about the people you know. The smart people are the ones who draw and paint and play instruments, or who truly appreciate (read: sperg out over) media like music and film. Some of the smartest and most influential people I know in the STEM fields had children who were artists, and it's not like their kids came out bad at math. They came out exceptional at both.
Again, life isn't fair like that. You know how, despite Hollywood tropes, looks and intellect actually have a nasty habit of overlapping in the same person? Creativity, too. Brilliance is brilliance and it is truly unfair.
The dichotomy you've presented between artsy/creative folks and people capable of complex abstraction/STEM types is false. STEM types ARE the creatives. They aren't opposite or antithetical. They are expressions of the same brilliance. Life isn't an RPG where if you have too many stat points in creativity it comes out of your INT. If anything-and this is brutal-dull people intellectually are dull creatively as well. Deadass, IQ contributes enough to the creative process that a brilliant person in mind has a much higher potential for artistic greatness than a dull person does. A work of art *absolutely* suffers when its creator is dull mentally. To even speak about intellect and artistic ability as separate things, rather than simply collapsing that into one name for the selfsame light, confuses the issue badly in this instance.
Think about the people you know. The smart people are the ones who draw and paint and play instruments, or who truly appreciate (read: sperg out over) media like music and film. Some of the smartest and most influential people I know in the STEM fields had children who were artists, and it's not like their kids came out bad at math. They came out exceptional at both.
Again, life isn't fair like that. You know how, despite Hollywood tropes, looks and intellect actually have a nasty habit of overlapping in the same person? Creativity, too. Brilliance is brilliance and it is truly unfair.
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