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I came to realize something today.
I sat in my bathroom, pondering things in there like I always do (HEY! NO WEIRD THOUGHTS!). I sat and thought about a conversation I had with my good friend Amadeus concerning internet video reviewers, then I thought about internet video reviewers and what made them popular. For while there are many succesful ones out there, there are possibly just as many if not even more cheap, bad rip-off... if not even more!
The one I had in mind was one called That Dude in the Suede. While I enjoy is videos, my good friend here doesn't, citing his lack of good humour and his nonchalant and one-sided critique of the things he doesn't like. Yeah, right... and do you know what I think about that... I think he's got a point!
Because eventhough this dude is clearly trying to convey a review about anime (a media format with way too little publicity over here) through the use of humour and sarcasm, it somehow just doesn't pull it off. Something is lacking. He's actually funny sometimes... on a few occasions. But otherwise you don't get much more than a mere chuckle. His critique is, while trying to be sarcastic, come off as nothing more than nonchalance, as my observant friend pointed out. Something just isn't right.
Personally I think he just needs some time to learn. While others clearly disagree with me, I really believe that all he needs is some time to learn, observe and study other such reviewers. He should look after exactly what makes them funny and enjoyable and then use his experiences and mold that into something that fits his personality or style. There's a technique to make people laugh and all he has to do is to find it.
Then I thought: "Hey! I speak good English and have at least adequate humour to make my friends laugh... maybe I should try that on!". Time's all I need, I thought. Study the others is all I have to do, I thought. I'm probably right, that's possibly all I have to do. Then I thought about something else Ame said once: "You've got to think it out all for yourself. If you just go looking on others, it won't be original and it won't make the cut.", or something along those lines. Mentally I replied that it wouldn't be possible. Since everything being thought and realized now and then has probably been realized by a whole bunch of people far back throughout history already, so no matter what we come up with, somebody has already come to that conclusion before us.
Now that REALLY made me think. Thinking about how many people live on the Earth as of now (about 6,3 milliard) and how many have lived since the dawn of the human species, then divide that with how many occasions I find people being similiar to each other I came to the conclusion that there is no single human that is unique in this world! Not a single one! Original thought is just a mere illusion, a sort of ignorant pride that doesn't take into account those around us and the times of past. Everything I've thought and come up with so far has already been thought up by some guy about 300 years before or somebody living on the other side of the planet. All my thought, all my weird antic, my speech, my writing, everything! Everything has already been done by somebody else! I'll probably find somebody very, very similiar to myself if I just go looking for them (provided I have the money). There's probably this guy in India who's twice as interesting as me, just that nobody knows about him because he ain't got the money to get a comp and ADSL connection an make himself known to the world. There's probably tons of guys like me over in England... those guys always seem so sarcastic and cynic anyways.
Then is suddenly struck me! I'm not unique! Or at least not as unique as I'd originally thought. There's of course no guy who's exactly like me, but probably at least one who shares an almost unmistakable personal resemblance to me. There's probably at least five or ten, maybe even fifteen such people in the world. I mean, there cab only be so many cases of variation before every alternative is tried and used and it all has to starts over. There can only be SO many different people on this world before there has to be one that's just like another. There simply a limit to variation, my friends. Nothing is infinite. Not even time and space.
I stunned me at first. But by now I've realized that it's always been like this anyway, so it wouldn't make any difference. It's simply meaningless. This whole rant's been pointless. A complete WASTE OF FUCKING TIME!
Well, at least I got to put all my excess energy into something... enlightening.
Hmm... I wonder if I'm ever going to meet my look-alike fron India. That'd surebe fun! :D
Oh well, this is getting tiresome.
Cheers folks!
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