Does this mean I can't join? I am still developing my art style, but I would like for it to be it's own unique thing separate from all others percieved or imagined in the past. I have had trouble with coming to terms with the lack of originality I find in the world of today. Every time I turn on the tv, read a recently written book or even in looking around at the society that everyone seems to accept as something unique and new, I see the seams of stitching done and redone over and over as we recognize and admire the genius of the one who first invented it. But in our admiration of the genius, we wish to make it our own. We see and we admire, so we copy and repeat. We change the details as we see fit, molding it better graft it to ourselves. Like buying an old dress at thrift store and tailoring it to our own body. Over time we add and take away, but it still remains the same. And there is no point in hiding the fact that we are thieves. And we have become desensitized to the original meaning the genius had intended to convey. Nothing holds meaning for us anymore, not really. I've seen the same episodes in different television series. The characters are different, the times have changed, but the plot remains the same. It has gotten to the point were I cannot read or watch hardly anything now without having heard it a 1001 times before. I have given up hope, all I can do to find solace is in partaking in the succulent meal of the originals, the geniuses who had the gaw to find something new. That is what I wish to do with my art, my stories and my life. But I am plagued by the constant reminder that, Galileo, Da Vinci, Columbus, Einstein, everyone has come before us. It just feels like we've run out of things to do, like we've grown to old and we're awaiting the next phase. I was only hoping to find a safe house of likeminded, frustrated people like myself so I could proceed to the next phase. To cease the agonizing complacenty of the same song sung over and over again till that is all I hear. I just wanted to feel like I wasn't the only one who saw this and wanted to change it. I just want things to be different.