PC36

selcouth in demeanor and preference

gynephilic mashup artist

minor

i drew my own pfp

last fm recently played music



The year is 2024, and originality is dead. And you are all at fault. Yes, even you dear reader. You are complicit in what you see as a crime.

To you, something to be derivative is a flaw. The remix, the cover, the mashup - all inferior to the original composition. But the truth is that everything is derivative. It has been this way for quite some time now.

Where as the mashup artists uses source tracks, the composers uses source notes. These fools think that just because they pull from "base components", they are original. A lie for the ages! Every note, every chord progression - it has all been done before. Was that the lick in your song? That shows a lack of creativity indeed. You had the idea to make pleasant-sounding vibrations? News flash: that already exists, it's called music. Get an original idea, like inventing a sixth sense.

Some fools, when accused of being devoid of originality, will answer, "I did not steal. I merely was inspired." Ha! You think there is a difference? It is a continuum, and the whole thing is dripping with the work of others before you. Every thing you have ever experienced influenced where you are now and the art you choose to make. You were inspired by that pop song you heard playing on the radio as a child. You were inspired by the sun setting. You were inspired by all the ways your parents treated you wrong and all the ways they treated you right. And when I say you were inspired, I mean you took. You took the carbohydrates in those plants and those photons from the sun, and you stole them! You are a physical creature, and even if you don't understand exactly how your brain works, you should know that everything that interacts with it changes it, influences it, "inspires" it. The pattern in your brain signifying your OC is indistinguishable from any other one. You know what went in, and you know what goes out. There is no output without input. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. THERE IS NOTHING NEW IN THIS UNIVERSE AND THERE NEVER WILL BE.

For participating in this human project we call "culture", you, like everyone else, have sentenced originality to its inevitable and eternal death. This is only a crime if you make it one, for even the most iron-fisted of laws are decided by mortals.

Do not ask yourself, "is this theft?". It has been and always will be. Ask yourself, "is this good?". And if you have stolen well, it just might be.


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