Curation is Creation

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Last Black Friday I posted to Facebook: I’m abstaining from buying anything today in protest of excessive consumerism. Make something instead! And got a rather curious reply from a friend: I wish I could make things I mulled that over for quite a while. I struggled to put myself in the commenter’s shoes. It’s wildly foreign to me. In my head, clearly creation is for everyone. It’s not the domain of some privileged class of individuals—it’s an essential act of being human. Everyone should—and can!—create. But I kept tugging at the thread because of a nagging suspicion that perhaps lots of people feel this way.