Black Dog Blog

Part of a comment I posted to Platitude of the Day.

As someone who 'creates' by writing fantasy/scifi as a hobby, I was struck by the Bish's statement "that it is of the nature of love, whether human or divine, to be creative". (What does that say about high-fantasy authors who make up planets and then make them fight for our entertainment? Eh, Tolkien? Looking at you, Feist!)

I've had a creative urge all my life – not to pass on my genes, but to pass on my memes… you could say, to have brainchildren!

This dichotomyduality has found its way into various bits of my writing – but not as the either/or thing it is for me personally. I just like memes. And to have a culture where your ideas are your pseudo-children and are imagined to breed with other people's ideas… much more exciting than terrestrial intellectual property law, right?

(The concept of "murder your babies" takes on an interesting additional angle when it comes to a magoscientist announcing that hir theory is wrong.)