Creativity, where are you?

What happened to creativity during the 20th century? Will we be always with an eye in the past looking for something pseudo-new?

In 1997, the British writer J. K. Rowling released the first Harry Potter series book, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, that became a worldwide best seller and then a movie by Warner Bros in 2001. Since then, Harry Potter became a global phenomenon, breaking selling books records when a new one was released and of viewers at the movies. Central theme: witches.

In 2008, another phenomenon among teenagers also went out from the books straight to the big screen: the Twilight saga. It was not as successful as Harry Potter, but it made lots fans around the world to fall in love with the story, as well it was strongly criticized. Central theme: vampires and werewolfs.

In 2010, the American TV network Fox releases “The Walking Dead” after the end of one of the most successful TV series, “Lost”. Central theme: zombies.

These are some examples of movies and TV series that made a worldwide success. Their central themes included witches, vampires, werewolves and zombies. What do they have in common?

Well, they are all fiction stories, fantasy. We can also notice that tales about these beings and creatures are not anything new. Even Disney's fairytales tells us stories with the same characters: the prince, the princess and the evil witch. What happened to creativity during the 20th century? What about the 21st?

We do not live in the Dark Age anymore and church no longer has the power to send supposed “demons” to the bonfire, we can not blame anyone due to sorcery for our “sin” to be understandable. We are so enlightened and skeptic that imagination is missing and even children are told since they are very young that the Easter rabbit and Santa Claus do not exist. Magic has gone. They become adult people with a little creativity, the grow up pale, skeptic, too much down to Earth.

Will we be always with an eye in the past looking for something pseudo-new? Will fashion always looking something retro or vintage to the model to show in the fashion show walkaway? Will the movie makes always be looking the best seller books list to know which of them could turn out to be a movie?

Inspiring in ancient tales helps to keep the folklore are mythology alive. Witches, zombies, werewolves, gladiators, god and demigods will not the forgotten soon. Will we be a generation of restores that will not contribute with anything new due to our lack of creativity?