invention

What's the difference between innovation and invention? Invention is creativity manifested, from imagination to reality. Innovation is defined as the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods/services or improvement in offering goods/services. I imagine,, that the trend towards the practical is driven by profit, very much disproving the idea that capitalism breeds creativity. It breeds innovation, but wow, how short-sighted man is to go towards profit and away from what genuinely makes humans unique amongst Earth's species-- the way we interact with the environment. Aristotle and pretty much all the male philosophers we read in Contemporary Civilizations (but creds to Aristotle for inspiring them all) have this dumb ass notion of human exceptionalism coming from communication. Perhaps they never took any time to notice their surroundings or study animals, because surely they would have seen flocks of birds flying or ants working together to pilfer crumbs from the floor. An argument could be made that written language is what distinguishes us? but I think that comes as a result of our specific way of interacting with the environment. Did we make tools that happened to be able to write, or did we make tools to write? Which came first, the thought I should write something down or the creation of a thing that could be used to write?

This is why I wanted to major in evolutionary biology of the human species, because I think so much is connected/should be connected more, prehistory bullshit and the patchwork of science's history we learn from textbooks today. My passion for science was really a philosophical yearning to know why we are. What ways have we understood the world and what ways should we understand the world? People, primarily the people who benefit from the established paradigms in science & the larger political social world as it's all connected, are quite happy with the way things are. But not me, and not a good amount of people either. Revolution in science, philosophy, sociology, all the fields... I see it in our generation. Many great minds who have a sense for the future and can make it real... are inventors, not innovators.