It amazes me that so many religions and mythologies treat the creation of the universe as nothing more than an accident that the rest of the gods just ran with. That sort of amazes me that something that artists and other creators nowadays take as a symbol of them improving (a happy accident) could be expanded so greatly as to be the reason the universe exists today.
Of course, if you ask me Creationism is more or less the artistic studio process and putting it all on a much, much grander scale. Some guy gets the idea to create the universe, they figure out how, then they create it, and everything else is them refining it and refining it and refining it until at some point, perhaps around the beginning of recorded history, it is 'released' for all to see and the fans of their work decide to expand upon the world they created.
Or, from the standpoint of Greek Mythology, A bunch of people decided to get together and make something, but they became ashamed of it and what its fans did to it, so they decided to destroy it. Of course, the 'fans' didn't really take to the idea very well, so they decided to more or less forget what the original authors decided for it and make their own version of it. They still weren't too keen on what their 'fans' were thinking up for the world they created, so they would always defunct what they didn't like and would do their best to make sure that THEY were the ones that thought up the good ideas and no one else. Until the fans more or less did the same thing they did and ignored them to make their own world, the world of logic and math and science etc. etc.
One thing that I want to say after all this, is that if that's the way artistic vision plays out on the grandest scale known to humankind, then what of us modern day artists and filmmakers? What of our product that we show to the public, what do we say to the creations of the fans? What do the fans decide of the worlds and characters we create? Do they help to define the world, or are they shunned and ignored for the author's insistence on having a 'better idea'? Has the world grown so big through the efforts of the fans that expanding the world beyond just one planet and one timeline is inevitable?
When I create my first theatric movie, I am going to encourage the fans to create. I will encourage them to discover how my world is supposed to work, and if they're on the nose then I won't say a thing. I will wait until they think up a better idea than mine, and then I'll adopt it. I'll be sure to add what I think I need for the world to be entertaining and enjoyable, but otherwise it's fair game as to how exactly the world I present is supposed to work.
What do you think?
