I like the analogy, actually. There's nothing wrong with a field of work that allows so much creativity. Both involve people working creatively and interactively, which are good ingredients for cultures to flourish. If one were to somehow remove what made our field like fashion, I wonder if there'd be any passion left.
I don't dismiss the creativity and innovation, on the contrary. I just dismiss blindly following the what other people are doing just because they are famous and/or vocal.
I was thinking about innovation this morning actually - how do we innovate? Is it on purpose? I thought that most of the innovation actually comes in one of two ways - by picturing a bright future and bringing the world to it, and much more frequently by coincidence. You are trying to achieve something you envision and most of the times you fail, but in the process of doing this you discover something new. And even then you can actually not realise that you have innovated. Most of the times a certain amount of time needs to pass in order you and the world to realise what you have done.
