I’m hijacking this from the “Internet providers” thread. How original are people these days, with their Adam Sandler films, their tATu CDs, and their Mercedes-Benzes? Do you think people could be any better? Really.
I think it has to do with what sells. No one wants to gamble or invest fortunes on doing something so original that it is so foreign to people’s “taste buds” that it doesn’t sell.
People are not original, as I already stated.
Well, okay, I admit some people are original, but those are very, very few. Most of them are musicians and other artists, or (and especially) scientists, and even they are only original in their own field. And in the case of scientists, it is somewhat their job to be original in their thinking, that is the only way anything new can be invented.
Those people who started something completely new, are original, others are just cheap copies. Dressing funnily/cool/stupid/whatnot isn’t original, having an obscure hobby that next to no one know anything about is not original, etc.
If one can say that he/she started some new thing or invented a new thing, then it can be said that that person is original.
IMNSHO
Thats not very original is it? 
Matt
Blend on, and blend well!!!
Charlie Kaufman is original, I think. (Being John Malkovich’s screenwriter.) And there are a few other minds that are truly original, but I think we’ve got too much premade fluff.
BTW: I didn’t mean how products are, I meant people… even if they did make the products.
People who can think, produce and make succesful original products, are original. You try that, and then see what happens.
Only the insain or illmoral person is consider original. Everyone else is social, which pass laws against the originals.
Originallity is dying. I mean look at all these shows that are coming up on TV. Fox makes Joe Millionare, and now NBC’s doing “For Love or Money.” Different shows, same perverse twist. Also NBC does America’s Most Talented Kid, so of course Fox has to come up with an American Idol for kids.
Also the change in fashion seems to be slowing. There’s not that much change in the “popular” clothes we wear all the time.
There haven’t really been any new types of music recently, they’re all pretty much the same now.
But there might not be very much stuff left to be original about. A lot of things might have already been done in some point of time.
Just my 10 cents,
Pooba
There’s a show that introduce straight men to gays without knowlege and theres a gay boyscout being created too, can anyone say Jo pedophile ?
There are very few moments in life when people could cultivate their original tendancies. Think about how time is spent. Does the average person use it on creative pursuits? Perhaps, instead, more time is spent on endulging on someone else’s “creativity.”
We live an an overly media saturated world. People come home from work or school (where they hadn’t had the time to think for themselves) and plop down on a big comfy couch to take in some mass-produced peice of “comedy” or whatever other type of show one may enjoy. I will not make the claim that there isn’t ANY original works on TV or in the movies (The Simpsons and Pixar films are great), but much too often cheap dirty jokes are used because thinking up something new and difforent is beyond some people’s abilities. Worse, (going back to the beginning of this paragraph) because of time being used in unproductive, uncreative, and unoriginal persuits most people do not know how to be original.
I’ve always felt originallity needs to be personally encouraged within people’s self. One must take the time to do new and difforent activities of their own, because the ability to be orignal cannot be tought and learned. It has to be developed within one’s self. We cannot fall into the world’s rut of conformity.
I feel I am a somewhat orignal person … although, I admit, I have a much too tight grip on my mind at times. I need to loosen up a little at let a little craziness slip out. I can be crazy when in the right mood. Heck, I’ve came up with conceptual ideas for stories, videogames, and art including ‘leapard sneasing creamcicles,’ the ‘elk squad,’ ‘crabbages,’ ‘girraffee limbo,’ etc., and if you’ve seen some of my doodles! These are more just random impulses firing through my brain than real cases of orignallity, but there are more, bigger, difforent, weirder things that I could come up with … I dare not say what they may be, for this ideas would not be easily accepted…
I have far too many unusual oppinions and views that I know for a certainty would not be easily understood. I could write for pages, and it would still be no use. Perhaps a lot of people are not original, but a lot of people also do not feel alienated from everybody because of holding some uncommon beliefs… They are well founded, highly defined, reasonable beliefs … but not commonly expressed in any way by most people. It’s easier to believe what society tells you … I sure do sound paranoid!
All I have to say is orignallity is risky buisness which seems to rarely be rewarding … but unoriginallity is much worse.
So you’re saying everyone should be the same or else be locked away? And who determines how society should be? All of your political posts seem to attack alleged tyranny, but wouldn’t forcing all people to be the same be a form of tyranny in and of itself?
im original, cause im like the only real potty-mouth on this forum! 
So you’re saying everyone should be the same or else be locked away? And who determines how society should be? All of your political posts seem to attack alleged tyranny, but wouldn’t forcing all people to be the same be a form of tyranny in and of itself?[/quote]
Excuse me ?
I’m sure. So, if you’re original because you’ve got a potty mouth, Kevin Smith is original. I mean, sure, he is (a movie about convenience store clerks… clever), but I don’t think it’s just becuase he has a potty-mouth. There’s got to be a little more, like a great sense of humor (Kevin Smith sees pop-culture plot holes and does something with them–i.e. independent contractors on the second, uncompleted Death Star when it was blown up… hehe), and your sense of humor… I don’t know. Still, that picture in the crushes thread was pretty clever (even if you didn’t do it yourself).
There’s a show that introduce straight men to gays without knowlege and theres a gay boyscout being created too, can anyone say Jo pedophile ?
“Joe Pedophile.” There, I can say it.
Ever so obviously, you’re sticking to reality TV shows. Yawn… those suck. And yes, they do rip each other off, like “America’s Most Talented Kid” was a blatant rip-off of “American Idol,” which ripped off “Star Search.” “Joe Millionaire” and “For Love Or Money” are pathetic. I mean, the women are doing it for money… please. I don’t think I’d date someone just for their money (okay, maybe I would), especially if it was a guy.
TV shows lack originality these days, yes. “24” is original, so “Watching Ellie” had to take the idea into the sitcom world (until NBC decided it wasn’t cliched enough, so out real-time went). “Twilight Zone” was original, and in a way, so was “The Outer Limits,” and I’m obviously talking about the originals. And “Monty Python’s Flying Circus…” well, I think anything that has a segment called “Flying Sheep” is pretty original, if insane and weird. 
However, “TZ” and “Outer Limits” were remade into cliched TV shows that lack the brains of the originals, and “Python” was pretty much ripped off by “Kids In The Hall” and (somewhat–not anymore these days) “Saturday Night Live.”