ParaSummary Question 5 - CAT 2021
Passage:
Creativity is now viewed as the engine of economic progress. Various organizations are devoted to its study and promotion; there are encyclopedias and handbooks surveying creativity research. But this proliferating success has tended to erode creativity’s stable identity: it has become so invested with value that it has become impossible to police its meaning and the practices that supposedly identify and encourage it. Many people and organizations committed to producing original thoughts now feel that undue obsession with the idea of creativity gets in the way of real creativity.
A) The obsession with original thought, how it can be promoted and researched, has made it impossible for people and organizations to define the concept anymore.
B) The industry that has built up around researching what comprises and encourages creativity has destroyed the creative process itself.
C) Creativity has proliferated to the extent that is no longer a stable process, and its mutating identity has stifled the creative process.
D) The value assigned to creativity today has assumed such proportions that the concept itself has lost its real meaning and this is hampering the engendering of real creativity.
Step-by-Step Explanation
- Correct Answer: D
- Explanation: The passage outlines that as creativity has been elevated into a massive economic asset, its core meaning has become diluted and unpoliceable. This obsession with commercializing and measuring the concept ultimately blocks real original thought from occurring. Option D clearly traces this path to its final conclusion.
- FundaMakers Tip: Watch Out for Hyperbolic Language. Option B asserts that the industry has "destroyed" the creative process. This word choice is an exaggeration of the text, which gently notes that the obsession "gets in the way of" real creativity. Option D maintains accurate text boundaries using the word "hampering."