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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Honestly though, is there really such a think as TRULY independent thought nowadays? Most are just rehashes of previous ideas.... From time to time, you see an original or unique twist but not much.
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I put a lot of effort into curating a life where most of my interactions would be with artists and entrepreneurs and other iconoclasts who marched to the beat of their own drummers.
In recent years, at least in the US, conversations have become more dull on average. There is diminished interest in music or literature or fashion or even gossiping about people they know. It is all one of two opinions about news story of the day, but their knowledge is so shallow, so minimal, so unresearched, so not particularly their own opinion that there is no point in even trying to accommodate their supposed new interests.
I'm not saying that everyone I ever used to interact with was either a leader or loner and no followers and everyone had constant original and interesting and innovative ideas they expressed...but the percentages were better and much less frustrating and much less boring.