Copy Cats

Completely agree with you, infact one of my topics for discussions were coped, this is not fare. I thinnk people now days only believe in easy and shortcuts routes, no one is interested in being original at all. Atleast some of us still have the courage to be original.

To each his own. I'm sure some people view your sense of style in the same way. People look at their environment and others to gain ideas on style. There's nothing wrong with that. Everyone is a copycat to a certain degree. Even the ones who go through so much to not look commercial tend to look just as made up. For instance, the punk subculture has non-conformity as one of their staple ideologies yet you can pick out a punk from a mile away because of his/her cliche, stereotypical spiky hair, leather jacket with patches and studs, converse, dingy straight leg jeans etc.

Hollywood is always recycling films. Gladiator was a remake of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" exactly the same plot. Then there was the remake of "The Italian Job" and others to numerous to list.