The part where Kermit talks about being creative resembles living in the swamp, as one first needs to be make a living, reminds me of what my high school sociology teacher taught me: one reason humans took longer to evolve from hunter-gatherer periods to agricultural periods, compared to the rapid advancements from agricultural periods onward, is that agricultural societies had leisure time. Similarly, creativity requires one to first stay alive (not to worry only about survivorship). If a person is so desperate that he/she is seriously starving to death, then the chances that person could be creative is small. Just like during hunter-gatherer periods, most people were busy chasing after beasts or picking apples with barely any leisure time, whereas in agricultural societies, many people have the leisure, after a working day, of designing an ax or shovel, where creativity possibly plays a role. However, this is not to say that creativity comes with spare time only; it lies inherently in every one of us. Rather, as long as one person, in the current society, is not in some extreme situations, he/she can surely be creative.