(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) How many times to we discuss a real world event and compare it to something in fiction? “This is just like that book,” we say or … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) As I have written about regularly, creativity is necessary to get a better world. It is a power that dissolves the grip of tyrants, a kind … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Tyrants and those that would control us fear creativity. They can be out-imagined, out-thought, and thrown down often by means they didn’t foresee. Tyrants fear creativity. … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) We want our creative works to reach people – to inspire, to guide, to entertain, to salve pains. We want to change the world in our … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) We wish our creative works to reach people. We want to shake the thrones of tyrants and overturn oppression. We want to make people laugh, to … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Creativity is a powerful force that shapes worlds and shakes tyrants. Through it we connect ideas to find new possibilities. Through it we connect with others … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com, www.SeventhSanctum.com, and Steve’s Tumblr) Creativity cannot be separated from Freedom; it is the source of it and the result of it. Share it, encourage it, understand it. Creativity allows people to think in new … Continue reading
Freedom of the press is important to any democracy and indeed functional society. We take it for granted in America, only discussing it in between our complaints about how awful news has gotten. But as newspapers fade, as news changes … Continue reading
I meet way too many people who confuse escapism with freedom. This is a deadly confusion for one's career and one's life. Escapism is when we run away, when we numb the pain, or when we avoid things. Escapism is … Continue reading
You want to live your passion like all of us. You have dreams, you have ideas, you want to bring them out. There's something that burns in your heart to be born. Yet, something constrains you . . . Or … Continue reading