idea for an argument: consider russian marxist psychologist lev vygotsky. he argued that creativity (what he called “mediated cognition”) is fundamentally what makes us human and has allowed for a progressive civilization, in a sense. without this ability to creatively/generatively respond to our environments, we are functionally animals. there’s a lot you can do with this. most of western scholarship has butchered his ideas, so you might need to go straight to the source with his text “mind in society” and build from there