>>30635530Ironically that post reflects the issue. Western societies inculcate in their creators the aspiration that everything they do has to have meaning, to be unique, or to push boundaries, otherwise you lock even more of your public character into being a drone - if you just do something someone else does, you might as well not do it at all. Because of the socially-instilled need to stand out they are locked in paralysis if they can't and would rather put out nothing - they may output insufficiently different things but only behind closed doors as practice, or hide it behind irony or 'memes'.
On the other hand people raised in asian societies have no problem with just being another cog - the individuality is in that you are the one doing it and not another person - even if the same problem is being tackled or basically the same thing being produced, because every time you do it you are reaffirming your ability to meet a standard.
