In Your Lifetime You'll Never Think of an Original Idea
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Man no matter how much I try to see it, that mustache just doesnt work on you...
Andrew eh I like it on him
I just want to say I love your mustache
*laughs in foli fusion*
Nay. Sorry.
A Isaac Newton quote: "If I have seen further than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants" (referring to earlier work in math and physics).
Exactly the quote I was thinking of during the video.
@@publiusquinctiliusvarus7736 At least he admits he had substantial help in achieving his results.
新竹高于旧竹枝，全凭老干为扶持。Chinese version of the quote
"no u" - Leibniz
@@angsern8455 my man. translate it so we can understand. i will start learning chinese soon....
im using this video for when i end up in court for copyright infringement
This proves my idea isn't original either.
@@brendabalzan1994 hahaha
Seems legit...
Yes, they'll appreciate the plug for the game 😂
awesome reply
Message of the video: it's okay to copy something as long as you make it better
No as long as you put your own spin on it
It's hard to separate that concept from simply republishing the same thing under a more recognized brand name. It's the quickest route to profit, and underpins the examples in this video. If the copies added something new, trimmed the fat, or simply re-envisioned the content, the only tangible difference is that the same content was produced by one but added to the success of another. The infinite recursion argument from this video is the only thing that gives a plagiarist the excuse of "well, you didn't invent that either, and so you should be happy that I made it popular, and thus, validated your effort."
DNA APPROVED
Thats like blaming a jazz musician for stealing the song they are improvising over..
Thats kind of the way we make progress. Things like the open source software movements embrace this and have allowed incredible progress.
That's why my favorite quote from Salvador Dalí says "Good artists copy... Great artists steal" 👌🏼😉
*Pablo Picasso* said this not Dali
Lol busted
@@tomrey5 T.S Eliot said it before that.
This joke is so damn meta it's unbelievable
every time i think of salvador dali i think of melted clocks long legs and sagging boobs but i know only the clocks melting was visable
When I was in exams I drew heavy inspiration from my classmates answers.
😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭🤣😂😂😂
lmao
It was almost like copying, but not.
An innovator of our time.
Copy one work - plagrism/theft.
Copy many - compilation!
You're not Bill Gates are ya? 😭
Dude you deserve a Noble prize. I'm not even joking...
Copy one work - plagiarist/thief
Copy many - genius
Kill one man - murderer
Kill one million - God
@@ministryoftruth8499 kill 1 million - God? Wut?
@@pepsusser Yeah. It's more like:
Kill one man - you're a murderer
Kill a dozen - mass murderer
Kill a couple million - a Stalin or Hitler
Kill them all - God
Remember when you told a joke and no one in the room laughed, and 2 secs later your friend repeats your joke louder and gets all the attention? Yes? Well that's basically this video.
did you just watch key and peele when fluffy took peele
i wanna get high on pot and neuse
@@bradblair8333 I don't know what you are talking about, but it sounds illegal. And unhealthy.
But I don't care. I want to do pot now and stab myself. Also pipe bombs in my mail that explode on opening the mail box.
Ha, such an "Original" video from Thoughty2. Great content mate, keep up the amazing work!
@Agt.BADASS you know he copies articles from others and just makes them into youtube videos
@@scrublord2347 well certainly he doesn't come up with the material himself...if he was making shit up it would all be bullshit lol. It's called source material.
Or is it? o.O
I wonder if the bible is an original Authentication.
@@workindad Well it does say YOUR brain can't come up with original ideas.... I'm sure God comes up with new material lol.
As it says in Ecclesiastes, "There is nothing new under the sun...with great wisdom comes great sorrow."
Where exactly?
harris ecclesiastes chapter 1 vv. 9 and 18(asv respectively)
External reference/trivia fact; dr. Cox from tv show "Scrubs" references "the burden of knowledge".
Haha I was thinking of that exact verse, you could use this video as a tool to put forth an argument that if all ideas are borrowed, then the original idea of anything must come from outside the realm of the human mind, given that it can only perceive information that already exists. :)
Well you could argue that is a stolen quote as well. I'm sure someone watched the sun in 50000 bc and said that.
Word just look at james c. from in living colors depressed af ass now he know too much hope he dont pull a robin w.
As Jaques Fresco said "noone is creative, the idea of being creative is just making known elements and putting them together in interesting ways, you can't create anything new"
We all know that Hitler and Stalin copied their moustaches from Thoughty2
They didn’t quite get it right. No one can match Thought2’s Mustache
Michael Ortega 😂😂😂😂😂
Is your profile pic Mr. Bean as Mona Lisa?
I'm currently growing the thickest mustache possible so I can dress as Hitler this Halloween:P Takes like 6 months to fill in the center above the lip good enough to pull it off
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 you are a beast
As a Dutch person, hearing Van Gogh's name pronounced like this is very satisfying. Closest pronunciation I've heard from someone who isn't native. Now that is original.
@3:36 you can just listen to how it's pronounced properly on RUclips lol
I am a huge fan of Van Gogh, and learned the correct pronunciation from my young niece, who toured Europe several times and visited the famous museum where most of his work hangs. I always pronounce it the correct way, and everyone corrects me...its never ending. I'm glad you posted, it makes me feel better. I like Van Gogh so much I don't want to say his name incorrectly!
@@christineparis5607 I mean I'm not a Van Gogh fan (no disliking, just not an art person) but I still wanna point it out in some circumstances because everyone needs at least a little pride in their country.
@@Thoomas2001
I'm glad you commented! I always want to hear how the people in the country of origin pronounce names we are familiar with, but may not have learned correctly.
I can't remember the name of the museum where most of his work is (do you know the name?), it was not large, but my niece was just overwhelmed, she is an artist and loved everything there. She also said the people were very nice and friendly (As a 6 year old, her mom married a man who loved to travel a great deal, and she went around the world with them until she was in her late teens. I loved hearing her views on where they went, she had an incredible gift for talking to anyone, and as a beautiful little girl from California, always attracted a lot of attention).
I am convinced if children could travel for a couple of years around the planet, they would become much better citizens of the world. The benefits would create interactive nations and understanding, instead of the ignorant xenophobia so prevalent today. I realize how expensive it would be, but I still think it would be great.
@@christineparis5607 I think it's just the Van Gogh Museum, funnily enough. That _is_ the museum with the biggest Vincent van Gogh collection.
Original idea? Disney laughs in over 130 years of copyright
😅
@lionking
Evolution happens very slowly with large organisms. If you want to witness evolution happening in the moment, observe microbes.
@@ArifRWinandar the fuck is this
@@fuckoff6431 25 seconds ago lmao
“Nothing said the copies can’t surpass the original”-Shirou Emiya UBW
A long time ago I heard someone say, "Every idea has already been had." I always believed that.
Raid shadow legends is owned by casino company. It has predatory marketing. I do not recommend
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) let thoughty2 eat ffs
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) really? ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°
I skip paid promotions and am a proud adblock plus user. Casino companies can fuck off.
@@TrashDeviant Hitler owns ad block plus
@@Jeidjeneudejendu He also made cars affordable for the masses. Even terrible people do good things sometimes.
As a writer I live in a constant struggle. Almost every time I come up with an idea, I do research and find that the same story pattern has been used in a book hundred years ago. I just need to learn not to care that much.
If you write as a profession (or dedicated hobby), I would suggest that you don't focus so much on the story pattern, but more on how it is carried out and add your own personal spice to the main factors that drive the story forward. A good writer can turn any common-day occurance into an event worthy of a reader's highest attention. As such, it's not the occurance that is important, it's how you tell the story about it.
@@Real_MisterSir Shit that is _so_ entirely true!! If you are a master at storytelling then you could entice someone or bring them to tears even as you tell them how the mc skillfully peeled his apple then drank his orange juice before going to the store on a stormy day. It's all in the words, not necessarily the plot itself.
I too stumble on upon this problem quite often. Usually, I just continue to break down my idea (if I find out its already used) into smaller chunks, build upon those and then try and match it togheter. Seeing if I can create something "original". Of course, building on top of a concept is what I belive is the best possible thing, as it grants a completely new perspective.
But either way.. I wish you the best of luck!
I think a better video title would have been: Your Brain Can't Comprehend A Blank Slate.
I suspect what is happening is that the struggle to find something "completely original" is what's at issue, resulting in a short circuiting and your subconscious brain scuppering you. I've got no expertise in this matter at all, but it might be that taking fiction and rewriting it as many ways as you can could break you out of the lull, teaching your subconscious that "originality" can't exist in a void.
As an artist I have decided to simply not research if what I want to do has been done before. If I did I would never get anything drawn.
You’ve changed, I remember watching you in 2015 with the strangest planets
@AlboZz
THE SUIT IS GONE!!!!
Doesn't seem that changed to me. Except no more episodes of RIF. But it's all good
I enjoy watching him more now than then.
Yeah i been watching him forever too i prefer his older things
He just talks faster these days and of course the legendary mustache
As a student of industrial product design, I really relate to this.
Everyone always tries to create new things, where I just try to make things that already exist, but better.
And then people go "but that already exists"
Honestly, this is one of the most important and inspiring videos I've ever watched on youtube regarding creativity and passion to create.
Thank you so much Thoughty2 for making this video.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Abyssinia Empire guess I’ll be stealing this quote 😉😂
Good artists copy, great artists steal!
I'm great.
Picasso
Was wondering who said that. Know the quote as it's what the greats do. Take a story already told and make it great
Thoughty2 is just *British V-sauce*
True
V-Sauce is American Thoughty2.
PERIOD.T
The irony that Michael did a huge amount of his work in England
VSauce (Micheal here) has cognitive ability 10x that of the likes of "Thoughty2" PLEASE
Thoughty2 is just a more refined less nerdy version of V-sauce
Oh boy, I just got an awesome idea for a RUclips video. I'll just tell you so much: It's about tge question if anything is ever truly original.
Man, I am a genius.
Wait... not sponsored by SKILLSHARE???
Top 10 anime betrayals
LMFAO
are you thinking of forty tooooo heere or joe scott
how ironic the sponsor is raid shadow legends which is like the most not original sponsorship in RUclips ever
@@RadenWA fr
When you mentioned "cryptomnesia" I literally thought for a second that it is some sort of kryptonite-infused gas that could wipe Superman's memories.
Is the word “original” original? And if so, is the word “copied” copied?
Fun fact: If so, they would be autological words. Or a word that describes itself.
*hits blunt*
It ain’t that deep
www.etymonline.com/word/original
*Vsause music plays.
Who would win:
*Top secret US military Base*
Or
*NoobMaster_27,SuperPro_69 and VillageBoy_33*
Beast Master 64 will be victories
And the_legend27
People underestimate the power of WeatherBoy86
The duo minecraftfukboi and xXpredatorMissile360noscope420blazeitfagetXx reign supreme
The Globe - or herobrine333
And that's why open source is a truly amazing concept.
Open source is a con trick to get a bunch of strangers to do your work for you so you can build up someone else's idea enough to slap a license fee on it. It amounts to a case of "let's rebuild something that already exists because it is the wrong shade of black".
I dont know if sometimes you realize how much some of your videos mean to people. Thank you for this and for making free content for us to enjoy ! I cant wait for each single upload of yours ! Thank you
Deep Impact > Armageddon
Hey it's the stabby finger knife man
@@bobtheblob9739 yoo
Nope
Truth
what??? nah
I feel inspired to do something not entirely original.
When you define a plot with something as vague as "going on a quest" then of course theres a lot of ideas. But the real idea lies deeper than that.
That 7 stories thing is most likely not true. It doesn't seem possible.
Quest for diamond is not same as quest for a woman.
@Gangsta Luigi I'm too inept of a story writer to even try, but surely someone smarter than me can do it? It just doesn't seem possible. Is there some kind of evidence for the theory?
@Gangsta Luigi I can't to my knowledge. Two powers ending a feud is pretty much overcoming the monster and a quest.
@@PresidentialWinner The theory basically is a broader version of the hero's journey. Basically no matter what you do, it will fall in these categories. This is mainly based on all entertainment media that exists now.
5:34 I'm pretty sure 2000 years ago someone thought "Man, if only my headphones were wireless"
ideas are neither created nor destroyed, but simply transformed from one idea into another...
Like energy....
Finally someone has finally understand 🎖️🏅🥇🥈🥉
This should have a lot of likes
That's actually how I've been doing almost all of the time. Let's say I'm writing just for fun, it'll end up being a mixture of a couple of different books I've read 😂
i will reference this vid whenever my teacher complains about me plagiarizing
My man's got an A-level in philosophy i see
AwkwardSause c: And a sponsorship
I'm trying to think of an original comment, but I'm afraid it'll just be something I've heard somewhere else.
Probably something about the moustache?
Dumdum. No
I’ve got one! ”I’m so stupid and smart. Thank you.”
Who’s ever said that huh? Oh wait... Now I have, dammit.
I'm trying to think of an original comment , but I'm afraid it'll just be something I've heard somewhere else.
@J J didn't you see the video. EVERYTHING IS STOLEN, HOMIE!!!
Hold up
I just started watching you again. What is that caterpillar doing on your lip?
Same
Kyrlics Saaame
Same shit I said
Let him express himself however he wants to, for christ sake...
Its a distraction from anyone talking about his 3rd nipple.
That's what I keep on saying unto others.
Nothing really is original everything is a copy of others and evolved into a different variant of their parent
6:58 - ''The Story Of Bob The Normie''
''Bob woke up, turned off his alarm and stared blankly into the wall. The end.''
Him waking up is a rebirth the blank wall shows he has no memories or history
This is not original because I do this every day.
King Solomon wrote, "What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun" about 935 BC.
King Solomon tweet that out from his ipad?
@@James-co2nb well, it may have been on a TABLET
so in 14 minutes i learned again that history repeats itself
but did you remember how history repeats itself?
My favorite example of Twin Films:
White House Down
Olympus has fallen.
I've seen both at least twice, and cannot remember which characters are in which or specifically what happens in which.
Channing Tatum Vs Gerald Butler. Two shitty actors in amusing but shitty films.
My guilty pleasure favorite: deep impact & Armageddon
My actual favorite: enemy & the double
Honorable mention: the invitation & get out
Glad I checked before I made this comment
Dude, WTF?! You STOLE my idea for this video!
I even said Original Idea DO NOT STEAL.
Bell Un-Dinged, Unsubscribed, Called the cops, reported to the UN for human rights violations.
dafuq man, i was about to comment this. double gutted, mate
Well aren't you a angry potatoe with wings?
@@l.e.b.3541 I'm surprised he didn't try and steal those too!
But he already did.
Just take a look under his nose and WITNESS those little brown potatoe-wings!
*Even an old modified idea is original.*
If it didn't exist before then it's new.
Boy: "Ouch!"
Mom: "What happened honey?"
Boy: "I've hurt my .... 11:43
Ha! I was guessing it was gonna be "3rd nipple" 🙄
XDDD i laughed more than i should have... xD
This is the best comment ive seen on youtube.
The most original comment I've ever read there! So who says there are no original ideas? DEBUNKED!!! :D
Yeah you're welcome people :))
You’re brain can’t create new ideas
Artists and scientists: are we a joke to you?
scientists don't exactly come up with new ideas,making a discovery is like playing sudoku.
they study phenomena,they do math,they do observations,and then they make the invention.
they don't randomly come up with a new invention years ahead their time and instantly know every single detail about it.
if someone wanted to make a time machine they will need to know how space time works first.
videakias3000 way to ruin the mood
*your
...did you actually watch the video?
Artists don’t create original ideas
Especially the ones who actually get paid
pissing on a lemon peel , boiling it in milk , and then feed to a pigeon.
there, original idea
❤
Is there anyone on RUclips who isn't sponsored by RAID: Shadow Legends?
Good thing i play free fire
@@kinimonimi5727 the battle royale game?
@@_--____--______--___ yeah the one for poor people like me lol
Me
@@psycele2859 there's always one 🤦🏼♂️😂
Isekai manga,anime/VN artist need to watch this video.
Thanks for such a great video. Hope it doesn’t get a copyright strike for some reason. Take care.
It's so easy for us artists to struggle with the feeling of being a fraud and not bringing anything new to the world...
..so, thank you.. I needed to hear this.
This man is speaking the truth!
If you don't believe him. Try to think of a new color if you can.
This video was sponsored by RAID: Area 51.
A British Gentelman's science channel is advertising a flashy informal gaming app.
I hope no one actually watching is dumb enough to try that horseshit mobile scam game crap, but they can pay my fav youtubers all they want, I'll just mumble something to myself during the ads
Creativity is born in *STILLNESS*
Only by letting the consciousness to flow freely that we are able to come up with new ideas
This is the exact reason why we should stop bringing stuff with us to the toilet
Atta Boi
Ossein
@@persianaz6389 BOOM
LIES because you are not the only person to try it AKA you are no creative.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
It's the fact that even the ideas you copy are themselves copies from other ideas which are copied.
Well you probably made someone else's video too, right ?
"the american writer helen keller" was that the only thing you remembered about her?
Raid shadow legends is pay to win trash. Like every mobile game.
Almost makes you wish that you could come up with something similar and laugh at the people who pay real money for bull shit content. I know I do
I would say infinity blade is a masterpiece
You should try Achikaps. It's a free minimalistic strategy game devoid of advertisements.
@@AnonyMous-bv3ge when you can't beat them, join them
This guy got an easy 5 figure check for that ad though.
I needed to hear this. I used to be a creator and I eventually quit because I felt it'd all been done before, and what could I possibly bring to every story that's been done before. Thank you, Thoughty2.
that is exactly right and doesn't take away anything from the amazement every time it happens
i use this video as my excuse to torrent everything
*Every Content be Original*
Until someone Copyright Strikes it
Thoughty2 or Cold fusion?
Anyway that moustache though!! 😂
I always hear fourty-two
@@faustoflores3334 thats the idea..its intentional...a reference to the hitch hikers guide to the galaxay...the answer to life and everything is 42
I needed to hear that last bit. Thank you for the great content, positive message, and upbeat energy.
You opened everything. Its a new beginning. Thanks Bro
Wait a second, you're telling me that my sonic oc FONIC isn't OrIgInaL??
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I mean, making Sonic's skin a different color to make a new character is completely original and has never been done before, so don't worry about it.
@@Debicus I'm jk
@@rolen1684 So was I
@@Debicus oh...
@@Debicus
Even if it's a joke, your Comment is right
It’s not EXACTLY like a control-c control-v, but like an HD Remaster…
Remember kids, it's okay to commit forgery if you do it well
Thank you sir, sincerely. This has helped me to move on with my creativity.
Whenever I start watching a vid from this channel I think like"Omg I will loose all hope that life is grand and awesome after this"
At the end of it I get more hope and inspiration.
How many times have you changed the thumbnail to this video?
thanks for confirming. i thought it was my imagination. it was a yellow and blue brain at some point
A lot?
Click rate
He said there were only 7 possible plot lines but what about slice of life?
Usually, they are comedy or tragedy, aren't they?
At some point in time everything will be said even when you try to add value
I learned in a high school English class that it’s not even a sure thing whether Shakespeare was really a person or not. It’s possible he is just a junction persona formed from a bunch of other artists from around that time.
Ideas that come to my mind:
- A nationwide maglev train (cargo and passenger) network in the US
- 900 GW Nuclear majority US electric grid
- Mass produced 5-10 or 40-50 mixed use buildings for cities
- Mass produced city streets with bike lanes, transit lanes, and wide side walks
*RUclips copyright system has entered the chat*
Yellow $
I can do you one better. ALL stories fit into one of two categories
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Mind Blown
What about fiction that threatens to kick your ass if you don't treat it as non-fiction..... like the bible or Qu'ran?
Now try to fit it into just one
@@commentator1338 one catagory you say for all stories? well... I present to you the amazing word: STORIES
Fictional cook book none of the times and temperatures actually work and ingredients explode.
I highly endorse this product and/or service...
Sometimes an artist has an idea they think is so good, it must have been something they had seen or heard from another artist and just forgot the origin of. The opposite of "cryptomnesia". Paul McCartney had the idea for the song Blackbird in a dream and when he woke up he thought it was a song he had heard somewhere before. Despite his best efforts to find the original work, he eventually gave up and pitched the song at his band mates. It was an original work afterall.
"Failsafe" & "Dr. Strangelove"
The way he said Van Gogh triggers me so
Hard 😭😭
Actually, Van Gogh was Dutch, so his name should be pronounced Cock/Gock. She he got it fight. If you're American who says Van "Go" or Brit who says Van "Goff" then you are the wrong one.
According to Thoughty2, idea for the game Raid was also stolen.
Copying one person's work is called plagiarism.
Copying many people's work is called research.
Romeo and Juliet is based on an ancient Roman story called Pyramus and Thisbe, written by Ovid, probably based on an older myth.
I love how Pyramus and Thisbe is the play performed in A Mid-Summer's Night Dream. 😃
This should be sent to every popular RUclipsr
"Everything is a Remix"
longer better version of this video concept...
thank me later [=
this explains why drake stole xxxtentacions flow lol
They both garbage
Well, the Bible backs you up on this one mate; Ecclesiastes 1:9
@Wade Haden perhaps you should read the verse in Ecclesiastes. The point of my comment is how Ecclesiastes fits the theme of this video.
I play guitar. 99.9% of what I play I have copied from others. Yet when I write a song, it is mine, even if I get the idea from something or someone else. When I write fiction, I am borrowing from my own experience or what I have heard or seen. Fascinating, Thoughty2! It doesn't however take away my enjoyment of it.
Star Wars, Avatar, Robin Hood, Pochohontis, Terminator and so many others are all the same story. A beautiful warrior princess, her renegade knight and a motley crew of misfits fight overwhelming odds and prevail. We all love that story.
If the brain has to draw upon prior memories, then there would be no such thing as technology at all. We'd still be living in trees.
Original eh? I bet nobody has ever said the following sentence:
Ndnswj swusus siege otns,s diwh ao
when I used to draw digitally I would always name my files ''jdksfjlkjsd'' and it happened serveral times where it said ''this name is already taken, choose another one'' .. idk that just came to my mind lol
I read that in a book. I am not lying I promise
Library of Babel. QED. It has been done
Yeaaah, I dont buy this one cheif. Sure, most ideas usually draw inspiration from one or more sources, but it's a massive stretch to say it's impossible to have an original idea. Let's take a fantasy trope of orcs and elves for example. Those had to be created at some point. There would have been a time when those were new ideas. And that goes for almost everything. It was a new, original idea at some point.
Thank you. This was my thought from the beginning of the video. Also, the fancy smartphone I was watching the video on didn't even exist when I was born.
I guess the point is that everything we make is inspired by something else.. smartphones were inspired by normal phones, which were inspired by telephones, which were made by experimenting ideas until success, which started with a simple idea (how to communicate from big distances), which was inspired by normal communication and the lack of better communication. The point being is that we always aspire to make things better, to improve. But in order to have an idea, there always needs to be a thought process, a comparison, experimentation, inspiration and motivation. It has to start somewhere, from something that directly affects us in some way.
Elves are from norse mythology
he literally says that there was a time where an original idea was possible
I honestly think that my number one goal in life right now is to one day, sit down in a pub with Thoughty2, and just talk for hours lol.
First off let me just point out that the fact that there only 7 proposed categories for fiction plots doesn't inherently mean that all fiction plots are derivatives of only seven ideas, it can also mean that the seven categories proposed are very broad! For instance let me rephrase the 7 proposed categories to make it more clear just how broad they are. Overcoming the monster = there is an obstacle somewhere in the story. The quest = there is a goal. Rags to riches = things get better. Tragedy = things get worse. Rebirth = things change. Voyage and return = to go someplace and come back (this could also easily be considered a subset of the quest with two goals). Comedy = expectations are subverted somewhere in the story.
Yes, of course, there are combinations. e.g. rage to riches could be a tragedy or a comedy.
@@calvinmasters6159 In this video, Thoughty2 makes the claim that an original idea has not been possible "for at least the last 2000 years" ( 5:24 to 5:43 ). I believe that this claim is so colossally incorrectly that it is absolutely inexcusable for any adult with a healthy frontal cortex to make this claim with conviction. To show just a few of the vast number of counter examples, here are some truly original ideas that have been conceived in the past 500 years: quantum mechanics, nuclear reactors, Turing machines, electrical transistors, lasers, EMPs, special and general relativity, calculus and a whole range of fields in mathematics. In order to further defend his misguided thesis, Thoughty2 postulates "in most creative fields there are actually a very limited number of possibilities that can be realized" ( 6:21 to 6:30 ). In order to try to prove this point, he then proceeds to attempt to site Christopher Brooker's seven possible plot categories as supporting evidence. This is both stupid and illogical. Just because you can group a set of objects into a small finite number of groups, that does not put a constraint on the uniqueness of the objects inside the group. For instance, every integer can be categorized at either even or odd, yet there are still an infinite number of unique even numbers and an infinite number of unique odd numbers. To stay on the themes of books, what Thoughty2 is claiming is very similar to claiming that since all books that have ever been written can be categories as fiction or nonfiction, all works of nonfiction must be derivatives of another nonfiction book except for one original nonfiction book that was written more than 2,000 years ago, which would be a very stupid claim to make.