Ecstasy of Influence response

When first reading the title I assumed that this is an article on what is plagiarism and how not to do it. However, upon reading the article I realized or rather began to question if this article is in fact plagiarism! This was more a joke due to the article explaining how every work of art, from television shows, music, books, etc...were taken from older shows, music, and books. Even further back to plays, poems, notes. All that we see today is in a sense plagiarism. Granted, the article is not stating that one can copy and paste a book Hemingway wrote and call it your own. It is simply showing you that without the old, historic works of art, we would have nothing to use today, a big circle always going around. This can help our research in a variety of ways, perhaps to have you realize how to research or how much to research. If what we are researching has basically happened before then we can almost certainly find traces of our topic wherever we look. Another reason would be to show how important it is, to make your topic your own. Yes, everything that we are going to do already came from something, but the personality and thought doesn't have to be the same. Creativity will always be different because people are different, no matter how similar the work.