Our creativity could be adaptive or it could be exaptive, which is to say it might have a direct evolutionary explanation or be a side-effect, a byproduct of traits that evolved to increase our chances of survival.

The question is whether our cultural creativity is an asset or a catastrophe in the long-term. We may be creating mainly more and more ways to destroy ourselves. We're liberated by our creativity, but that means we feel alienated from the environments we don't create.