Re:The Inventor of Magical Realism
by passion__desire on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:59AM
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> Everything is a mix of previous things
"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages."
― Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
So beautiful, thank you
Re:The Inventor of Magical Realism
by passion__desire on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:40PM
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The comment is meta in some sense as your observation should have been expressed by someone else before because that's what your observation implies.
I feel like AI has forced us to face this
No one person or entity is the sole author, creator or owner of anything
Everything is a mix of previous things
And we are constantly re-creating previous concepts in different ways