The Awesome Power of Unoriginal Art

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Originality is overrated. As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, people love the familiar. And that applies not only to restaurants but also stories. As any parent will attest, children from an early age want to be told the same tales over and over — and over — again. Grown-ups might like a little more variety to their retellings, but our predisposition to the unoriginal is eternal. There’s a reason why shopworn tropes are so shopworn!