Creation vs. Consumption.

More and more my thoughts turn to the inertia I feel and the nearest I can put a finger on it beyond a wee bit of burnout is the lack of a creative community with which to interact. To the best of my knowledge, practically everyone I know, save for a couple of family members, are consumers, and create virtually nothing.

This rather depresses me.

I need creative people around me to feel energized. Not consumers who are taken in and consumed themselves by their chosen activities (most everyone in modern society absorbed in X new series on HBO or Y new MMORPG), and not re-enactors who take old material and relive it (community theater, Ren Faire folks and related). Where are all the people making new things, creating new ideas, and not just rotating around someone else's?

Sigh.