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Dear Jake: The Concept of Originality

Recently Jake Roper from Vsauce made a video about a problem he has had this past week. A little while ago CGP Grey made a video on teleportation and self identity (which is really good). Jake, for several months, has been working on a video involving paradoxes that involves both self identity and teleportation as well (also really good). Both videos also involve a paradox involving a ship called…

I tend to forget people’s names. Whenever I meet someone new I have to constantly remind myself who they are and what’s going on in their life. When I meet them later on and I forget everything about them I feel terrible, almost to point when I feel ill. There are various people that I haven’t talked to in a while, and it has sort of made me feel worse over time. I should probably fix them, but I don’t know how.

In my art I portray people as faceless, genderless beings. This is not because I don’t want to take the time to draw fully detailed characters (though that’s part of it), it’s to portray how I view people; faces and names that I cannot find. Obviously I don’t view everyone this way, I can remember some people. I acknowledge that everyone is an individual human being. But when individuals turn into a crowd identity is lost, it’s only when we’re alone that we realize who we truly are.

That got weirdly philosophical at the end.