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With regard to arts and culture, what would you call the view, whether you agree with it or not, that "everything's been done?" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Everythingsbeendoneism? Perhaps there is another term I'm not familiar with.

P.S. I don't personally subscribe to this view, but am just wondering what to call it . . . cultural exhaustion? 🤷‍♂️

EDIT: I should say that I don't necessarily subscribe to this view; it kind of depends on what mood I'm in, to what degree I'm projecting my own feelings of old age and fatigue onto the outside world, and so forth.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I don't really have an answer to your question, I'm commenting because I do subscribe to that belief.

Humanity has been around for thousands of years, more than plenty of time to figure things out and learn and innovate. If we've existed as we are for those thousands of years, then wouldn't it make sense that we'd have figured out all the possible combinations of words and such? There were millions before, but there are billions now; who's to say not one of those individuals has come up with an entirely new piece of art that's never been seen, or a sentence that hasn't been heard before?

Imo it's a numbers game. Kinda like the infinite monkeys typing Shakespeare.