{"id":5708,"date":"2026-08-12T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/creativity-and-expression\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:07:06","slug":"creativity-and-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/creativity-and-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity and expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Creativity and expression exemplify human delights that refuse to be turned into Big Dopamine addictions.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">To be sure, successful artists may become addicted to the fame &#8211; and all that goes along with it &#8211; that turns dopamine into a mighty river.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">But creativity itself flows in gentle streams of Little Dopamine, gurgling over little rocks. We can sit there all day long and never get addicted to the joys of imagination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Creativity and expression exemplify human delights that refuse to be turned into Big Dopamine addictions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">To be sure, successful artists may become addicted to the fame &#8211; and all that goes along with it &#8211; that turns dopamine into a mighty river.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">But creativity itself flows in gentle streams of Little Dopamine, gurgling over little rocks. We can sit there all day long and never get addicted to the joys of imagination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity and expression exemplify human delights that refuse to be turned into Big Dopamine addictions.&nbsp; To be sure, successful artists may become addicted to the fame &#8211; and all that goes along with it &#8211; that turns dopamine into a mighty river.&nbsp; But creativity itself flows in gentle streams of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/creativity-and-expression\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-1u4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}