Everything is plagiarized. An interesting idea that might hold some truth to it. In the strange book Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon throws conventional ideas about art out the window and replaces them with this new perspective. He puts to head the argument that nothing anyone creates is truly original. This argument is interesting and perhaps holds some truth to it.
To a point, I can agree with Kleon in this argument, he says that everything we create is still in some way based upon the ideas and creations that others have had before us that we are taking and changing to make into different or better ideas. Instead of trying to distance ourselves from taking ideas from other creators Kleon says we should instead dive deeper into the creators we do appreciate and the people that they loved, and learn and take ideas from their creations and shape them into our own. Kleon isn't telling us to literally go out and copy a news article or a painting or some piece of art, but showing that no matter what we do, other creators will have a heavy impact on the way that we create, and that in the end we are effectively 'stealing' the ideas from these other creators.
This is an interesting idea. Certainly it relieves a lot of pressure on newer writers and creators who are too worried that they are going to be 'stealing' the ideas of their favourite creators, as I know how that feels to worry about. It's an interesting and well explained argument.
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