The one thing that people should understand about creatives - they are adept at being able to pull loose threads together to create a vision of reality that is very possible, but have no ability to see what is going on right in front of their own faces.

It is a left brain/right brain thing - from a more esoteric standpoint, a feminine/masculine dilemma.

Hideo Kojima is another good example of a creative that predicted the future well in advance, but is shilling for the system that he warned against back in 2002 in MGS2.