Death of originality

Why ? Why cant we live original lives ? Why are our lives so similar. Why are we not able to come up with original ideas ? Why dont we have more Oscar Wildes ? Where are the Einsteins ? Why havent we produced another David Ogilvy in the last 50 years ?


Just the other day, i was walking down the street and noticed that most of us end up going to similar schools, getting similar education, wearing similar clothes, form similar opinions and end up living similar - and unorginial lives.

Our language, mannerisms, thinking is so box-standard; it is revolting. I feel nauseous when i think of how so many of us can live this way. May be this is a sign of the end of originality.

Most of the great inventions/discoveries in the realm of science have been done in the last two centuries. This century and perhaps the next one will only have minor modifications in all things known....technology is bound by Moore's law. And then what ?? Across all realms, right from TEchnology, natural science, Fashion, societal organisations, economic systems; one can see an absolute lack of originality. It is as if we have stopped discovering and we are all too afraid to live original lives, imagine something original and new.....

Fashion is nothing but re-packaging of things old and outdated. We have an uncanny ability to dig up the past and bring elements to the present; as if the "collective unconsciious" forces us to re-visit the past and re-live it.

So, where is original thinking ? Where are new ideas ? Where are the daring heroes who transformed the world and shook the roots of conventional wisdom ? Are they products of another day and age ? Is the world not able to produce any more of them ?

Is this the beginning of the end ?? End of originality as we know it.