I am finding a lot of the discussion topics on this site, are starting to become repetitive, old or relating to what some may consider 'out of date'. Some people don't even respond in relation to a topic.

I was speaking to one person (a speaker), at a festival of ideas (a number of years ago) saying how it is becoming difficult to get detail, new ideas off the ground, information and creativity in what I called a 'drying climate' - (particularly in regards to the internet) and the wider community was suffering as a result.

I also said how elite classes were 'pushing' people aside, for their own benefit or commercial links, were leaving many people alone.

How can we encourage more creativity and connection, getting people out of this 'lack of ideas' based society?

Nathan, I believe as a percentage the number of participants have not varied. If you believe my synopsis the vast majority do not have a thought in their collective brains that does not directly relate to their immediate comfort, wellbeing,or short term outcomes.........most sheeple just do not care. The dumbing down of the school system and the advent of social media instill a shallow focused interest base.

But as I said at the start, I believe the majority have always been sheeple.

Speak for yourselves.

NathanJ, one way to encourage creativity and connection are hacking, start-up and "bar-camp" events. At these a group of people get together to do something. This weekend I have been judging Hacking for Humanity in Sydney, where teams had 48 hours to produce some socially worthwhile computer application. There are many such events around the world every week (if not, then set one up): http://blog.tomw.net.au/2015/11/random-hacks-of-kindness-sydney-summer.html

I would say not all new ideas are allowed to be posted on this forum. I posted ideas that selective media movies have ideas within the stories. Because of the 350 word limited on a first post and a number of complex examples. Proposed reading was rejected.

I Started a reading on why no man has walked on the moon. Even though people want to believe a man has walked on the moon. Technical arguments form a bases of understanding gravity; orbiting the moon speeds; rockets engines in no atmosphere, etc. readers may begin to doubt whether anyone has walked on the moon. It was rejected due to the a belief that the website forum would be judged ridiculous.

Yet, I also question the ease that some topics are allowed to be first posted.

People are generally criticising some person for getting something wrong for what they believe they know a lot about. Understanding what they believe to be true to be wrong, is difficult to achieve. Most people don't want to rethink something to be a possible grey probable idea. Most people are talkers not listeners.

Partly blaming the media for headline statements based on already understood rolled over easy information, limits the amount of known knowledge.

I could also accuse education and media for not only limiting information, as to also allow information worth while knowing to be made complex babble, discouraging future attentive desires of listening to and reading. Much easier to understand what feels correct.

As a joke: when considering the truth of media information, "the force is much stronger on the bark side" of reality media.

'I am finding a lot of the discussion topics on this site, are starting to become repetitive'

Never.

:-)

Which makes me wonder why I have been posting the odd response, after leaving a year or two ago.

I suppose some habits are hard to break.

If it's any consolation, I do feel dirty.