Disconnected and Creatively Sterile.

When a society is bombarded with stimulation from every angle, it tends to get numb. When technology supplants cell, art tends to become less human. When most every person in our society is among the richest human beings ever to have walked he face of the earth, we tend, to become cheap. When fame is more important than the value of the work, art tends to take a back seat to image. When our religious and philosophical views of reality harden into dead fundamentalism, we grow disconnected and creatively sterile. 

Underneath these roots lies the soil of our most fundamental and primal selves. This is the place where we hold our most basic views of reality. These views are probably not as articulate and coherent as our professed religious or philosophical systems. This is not the place of mathematical proofs or systematic theology but the raw, primordal soup of our existence. This is the place that holds our most basic fears, needs, and desires-the place that gives rise to instinct and passion. This is the soil of our humanness that makes up the ground from which all our thoughts, words, action, and creation spring. This deeper place affects our creativity in the most fundamental ways. 

Excerpt from The Crowd, The Critic, And The Muse by M. Gungor.