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| On originality |
| 01.25.05 (7:06 am) [edit] |
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Originality (as thought by most as a kind of deliberate difference) represents a departure from engagement with reality. In order to engage with reality, one must deny the impulse to be original: after all, being original means being different from everyone else as a prejudice: by not engaging with everyone else, one relies upon preconceived notions of what constitutes everyone else in order to shore up one's own sense of exceptionality. This doesn't mean that originality is entirely evacuated; rather, originality is part of the process by which one realizes the complexities of one's own engagement with the world (the engagements of another are necessarily both different and interconnected to one's own); originality therefore arises from a complex engagement with the world rather than from self-isolation and deliberate difference. Originality is more creative (in the sense of productive) a notion when we think of it as a matter of accidental difference.
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posted by: lg (reply)
post date: 02.16.05 (12:30 pm)
I still think you should be writing here more often. Hope the return trip went well. lg
posted by: (reply)
post date: 01.22.06 (11:23 am)
The human condition...I am everything you are and not. Amen. pi
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