What was first & Being 'New'

I'm trying to decide whether or not 'original ideas' exist or if ideas are just some 'compilation' and/or 'remixed' version of previous ideas. I've heard people argue for either side; but both seem just as plausible. Has everything been done already? Is there no way to be 'original' any more?

If ideas aren't necessarily dependent on previous ones, where is the line drawn to show the difference between 'original ideas' and 'un-original ideas'?

Wonder if I am influenced by anyone. Is someone getting ideas from me? Where did it all begin?


Hard to 'try to be original' if it's not possible. Think it might be important to be 'original' because of the attention people give to 'new ideas'. Hard to know what it means to be 'new' if there's nothing 'original'.

DJs seem to be making it by somehow though. They make something 'new' that is 'un-original' and get appraise for it. Makes you think that maybe 'originality' isn't so much what gets attention as much as something 'new'.