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March 10, 2007
imitation is the sincerest form of fraud
It has come to my attention that my attribution to the Animals of a Nina Simone song was not completely fair. blah blah blah And George Harrison imitated the Shirelles blah blah blah Likewise, the Dovells imitated the Students blah blah blah and blah blah blah The Grateful Dead stole (with help from Owsley Stanley and Ken Kesey) Tim Leary's idea for communal LSD ingestion blah blah blah The Gay Movement stole Oscar Wilde's idea. No, they stole Krafft-Ebing's Victorian notion that homosexuality was an ism thing. No, because Krafft Ebing stole homosexuality from its original inventor, one Karl Heinrich Ulrichs So put an ism in your jism blah blah blah And of course, there's always [fill in this space with another imitated concept, thing, ism or more original blog post on this subject] blah blah blah
Why, I'd be immediately accused of making unfair comparisons!
Now, if I could just add a few links, and replace the blah blah blahs with some long-winded pronouncements, there might be a Ph.D. in it for some enterprising young idea thief. Or maybe just a little grist for a think tank and ammo for activists..... (Do I hafta?) Might as well. But I've said absolutely nothing original here.
Wouldn't wanna copy that idea, would I? Might get in trouble with the DMCA police. How unoriginal of me. posted by Eric on 03.10.07 at 11:15 AM |
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