Remix is Human. Remix is I. Remix is Us.
Cannibalism is the light, it is the right, it is the rite of passage for society to transition to the Future. We must eat! We must cannibalize ideas!
Cannibalism is the Now. Cannibalism is the Future. Cannibalism is Progress. Do not waste the flesh of your fellow man! Consume him! Use every part of his body! Use his mind!
Pay tribute to his corporeal existence by nourishing yourself after his death!
Loop, Replay, Cut, Paste.
What is original about an attempt to be original? Nothing. The naïve believe they can be original. The naïve believe that they are original.
Each idea has its genealogy, its history. Our ideas are informed by ideas that came before us, by thinkers before us and by thinkers before them.
What is original? Taking the old, the dated, and refreshing it, making it readable again.
Remix is a tool. A tool for making things visible, legible, readable, comprehensible. Remix is a Rosetta Stone, a Rosetta Stone that is infinitely applicable to any form of translation. Remix is a form of translation. To Remix is to re-present coded messages in new codes that others can understand. Remix makes the unreadable, the incomprehensible, and the unknown, accessible.
Someone created the light bulb in your head that occasionally turns on. There is no spontaneous combustion, no bioluminescence for our minds.
Remix is the light bulb. Remix is the power plant. Use these foundations to light your mind, but do not mistake yourself for an pure, original creator. You work is within a tradition that has been built.
Never forget, however, that you expand upon this architecture; you lay new foundation upon which others can build more and add to an ever expanding estate of thought and of productivity.
Consume your fellow man and allow him to consume you! Take his ideas, re-create them, re-interpret them, re-mix them, re-introduce them into society! Then allow your body to be planted as a seed to be consumed by future generations.
Remix is Infinite. Remix is Ouroboros. Remix is Phoenix.
It is up to us to create the material from whence culture can be reborn. If the ashes of culture are swept away, discarded, culture will die.
Use the ashes of ideas past to be reborn. Use the ashes of the past to fertilize the soils of imagination, invention, and innovation.
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