In this interview, Alex Tier suggests that for many of us, our creativity has been subsumed by capitalist consumption. That is, rather than express ourselves by creating something, we express ourselves through our patterns of consumption. Our identity is constructed by what we buy, how we decorate our houses, what we wear, etc.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MOuQwqftAMhJhS2sKKqqh?si=5q-utsv8TdqE9LcetIirqA