Today while working at FormZero I was listening to the OST music of a game called KatanaZero. (a fantastic 5/5stars platform game by the way)
The similarity between FormZero and KatanaZero is not only in the name. In the game, the protagonist is injected with Chronos, where he is empowered with the power to control time, in return the protagonist is addicted to Chronos and is reliant on serving his Employer to continually have Chronos supplied to him. The powerful samurai is controlled by his source of power.
Our job as architects and designers allows us to enjoy consuming our creativity, granting us the power of creation. The taste of the power to consume creativity, making abstract thoughts into real objects is addictive. The more we use it, the more pleasure we gain, the more powerful we feel, the better we are at it, and the more addicted we become. The infinite positive feedback loop has been established.
There may be a point where we become immune and desensitized to other pleasurable activities or events. When one gets addicted to immense pleasures all the time, the mundane and normal ways of life become more and more boring and insufferable. Without consuming this addictive creativity, the strong sensation of withdrawal gets heavier and heavier. It compounds and looms over the sky. By consuming creativity, it became so fulfilling that one may endlessly pursue this pleasure of creation and, in return, get enslaved by the act of creation.
Do we control our creativity to create?
or does our need to create control us?