If anything, there being a lot more people around now should lead to the total amount of original creations around being at all time high (to quote the song). Maybe the proportion of people doing original things decreases, but in terms of total number there should be more originality around.
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Originally Posted by jgd85
besides nobody recognizes someone for being original until is is trendy enough to be noticed.
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Do you mean that people don't tend to credit something as being important in it's originality until it become accepted by a certain amount of people? Like if you record yourself making hyena noises into a microphone while somebody else reads erotic fiction aloud in a strong, angry Glaswegian accent and a third person plays chromatic scales on the cello then it would probably just be labelled as 'ridiculous' until a critical mass of people have heard and mentioned it to other people, at which point it becomes 'original'. If that's the kind of thing you mean then I agree.