Creativity Quote by Colin Hay

Colin Hay lands the line like a weary hook: not a manifesto, not a conspiracy board, just the blunt feeling you get when the news starts sounding like a single heavy hand turning the dials. “It strikes me” is doing real work here. It frames the thought as an observation, almost reluctant, the way a songwriter admits what everyone senses but feels silly saying out loud. That modest preface softens the accusation while making it harder to dismiss as paranoia.

The phrase “a bunch of people in power” is intentionally unspecific, and that’s the point. Hay isn’t litigating one villain; he’s pointing at a recurring structure: concentrated influence plus the confidence to redesign other people’s lives. “Really strong intentions” implies ideology, not accident. This isn’t the world drifting; it’s being steered. Then he sharpens it with “adjusting the world to exactly how they see it,” a line that exposes the quiet arrogance inside technocratic language. “Adjusting” sounds like a minor tweak, a harmless calibration. “Exactly” reveals the fantasy beneath it: total coherence, no friction, no messy pluralism.

Coming from a musician who built a career on wry, anxious pop storytelling, the sentiment hits as cultural mood rather than policy critique. It’s the post-optimism hangover: after decades of being told systems are neutral, Hay names the emotional truth that systems have authors. The subtext is a warning about control disguised as improvement, and about how easily “vision” becomes a synonym for domination.