originality/individualism is dead/ an illusion

People have existed for thousands, hundreds of thousands, even perhaps millions of years according to science, how the HELL could we expect to be "original" after that much time. Honestly, there were "rebels" and there were "conservatives" and there were "romantics" long before our great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpas were an itch in their daddy's pants.
I do agree though that we are individual in our own ways from pretty much everyone else.

I know that my sentence sounded funny, it's just that clothes don't make a person and nor does saying words, you have to be able to WEAR the clothes and believe the words, that's what makes people different, the way they do those very things.

This thread's been done before.

what we worship as originality we could as well call novelty. Myself, I've got quite a bit more mindless reactionary in me than I'd care to admit. At any rate, original is far less important nowadays than extreme. We should all be very extreme. Soon there will be new cool kids who will be shockingly ordinary and sedate. It's kinda like that "bad meaning good, not bad meaning bad" thing again. Eventually Michael Jackson was "bad" prancing around with all those zippers and whatnot. What do I know? I've never had an original thought in my life. I have however had a few novel ones.

not illusion

delusion


bow down.



-pb

Was the other one the original?

Be you! Drink Dr Pepper, the taste of originality.

it's an addictive illusion, a modern luxury, a self-perpetuating oxymoron in symbiosis with the advertising industry. individuality for its own sake has no more value than mindless conformity; I wouldn't worry about it.

fuck yes.


individuality is a delusion.

i didn't even see this. great minds.....