THE CREATIVE MINORITY, Author - Dr. Jernail S. Anand

THE CREATIVE MINORITY

Dr. Jernail S. Anand

Society runs on two engines: the creative and the formal. The formal isn’t the enemy of creativity, but it lacks the spark that makes art breathe. It steps into art, poetry, and culture only when emotion gets packaged and priced.

Look closer and you’ll see the real divide: those who work from passion versus those who work from fashion. How many of the passionate actually taste mainstream success? Almost none. They are a devastating minority. Most who refused to board the formal bandwagon vanished into anonymity. For people of passion, survival came first. Eat, or disappear.

Art is personal. If it’s genuine — not staged for applause — its market is small. You can chase your muse to the ends of the earth, but only if someone’s keeping the lights on. The greats who gave us immortal work? A tiny tribe. They held their muse, lived on scraps, and let their visions ride their bones. For them, the body was just a vehicle, not the destination.

Then there are the millions driven by body, pleasure, power. Many love art too, but they know how to sell its soul. When you see poets and writers crowned with fame, I’m not dismissing their talent. I’m stating a fact: they stepped fully into the formal world and put their art’s soul on the shelf.

Art, culture, writing — these are Saraswati’s gifts. They carry a sacred charge because they plug us into something divine. Followed with reverence, they bring peace. But they rarely bring wealth. Wealth avoids those who don’t worship it. And yet, who survives without Lakshmi? So artists enter the marketplace and put a price on their work.

Should we blame them? Education has been productified on an astronomical scale. Look what’s left. Market means profit. Profit often means no scruples. The old Shubh Labh — “Holy Gain” — painted on shop cash boxes is gone. The market swallowed it. Today, no poet, artist, or thinker survives without selling something of himself.

For the formal majority, this stopped being about survival. It’s about ambition, wealth, fame, and power. Ideally, we survive with dignity. But dignity doesn’t trend.

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Dr. Jernail S. Anand is a Chandigarh-based polymath with 200 books, including 20 epics. His Lustus: The Prince of Darkness confronts the moral complacency of our age. Founding President of the International Academy of Ethics, he is a laureate of the Charter of Morava, Seneca, Franz Kafka, and Maxim Gorky. His name is etched on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He is an Honorary Member of the Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade.[Serbia]

Anand’s poetics fuses ethics, Vedic spirituality, social critique, and the philosophy of meaning. He treats poetry as an instrument of planetary consciousness. A moral philosopher and international speaker, his work explores language, responsibility in a global society, and the link between matter, consciousness, and transcendence.

Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com

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